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Re:Asana S-1 by dman on Monday August 24, 2020 @06:04PM (#24266073)
Am going to short this one once it is out- saying this as someone who has been a user.
Re:Asana S-1 by vikramkr on Monday August 24, 2020 @06:39PM (#24266346)
This is a hell of a market to short anything. In the near term anything that helps remote work like this is probably going to spike up. Good luck with that. I know that I wouldn't personally be comfortable being confident I could make collateral to outlast a bubble or guess correctly when the tide is going to turn to make money off of an option trade when it comes to a remote enabling company in a stock market as crazy/driven by politics and the fed as this one
Re:Asana S-1 by dx034 on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @05:58AM (#24269678)
You can offset your short with a long in a competitor. That takes out the market beta. However, it isn't free and it can take a long time until a bad company goes under (not saying Asana is one, haven't used their product).

Wirecard laundered money over years and the FT reported on it, it still took a long time for it to collapse.

Re:Asana S-1 by tempsy on Monday August 24, 2020 @07:36PM (#24266706)
Not really - considering the massive premium a lot of "remote" tech stocks are getting I'm surprised that Slack ($WORK) is basically going nowhere.

Asana is closer to Slack than other cloud stocks imo, and given Slack's mediocre performance could easily see the same thing happen with Asana.

Re:Asana S-1 by itomato on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @12:58AM (#24268232)
Slack's not sexy. Slack will always be what it is, and a dongle or peripheral isn't going to improve that core product.

Similarly, there is no iPhone or GoPro waiting for unleash Asana's potential.

Needful stuff.

Re:Asana S-1 by api on Monday August 24, 2020 @06:52PM (#24266420)
Shorting anything now is shorting the federal reserve.
Re:Asana S-1 by tempsy on Monday August 24, 2020 @07:09PM (#24266533)
if that were the case why are banks still closer to their 52 week low than high?
Re:Asana S-1 by ummonk on Monday August 24, 2020 @09:21PM (#24267316)
Banks generally benefit from steeper yield curves. The yield curve is still quite flat and will likely stay that way due to the Fed buying-back long term treasuries.
Re:Asana S-1 by core-questions on Monday August 24, 2020 @07:48PM (#24266777)
"If only you knew how bad things really are"
Re:Asana S-1 by james-mcelwain on Monday August 24, 2020 @11:34PM (#24267925)
Hope you have good margin rates, you could be waiting a long time. A lot of these are steaming piles of shit if you think about fundamentals but the market doesn't care about fundamentals.