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Re:It Feels Like the Game Is Rigged by anonu on Monday February 01, 2021 @01:21AM (#25986134)
If you're talking about GME its not really a grand scale. The US Stock market cap is $50 trillion. GME is $22bn as of Friday afternoon or 5 basis points of the rest of the market.

Yes, big SD moves happen frequently enough that we have to revisit our normal distribution models. But GME isn't really the reason to do this.

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Re:It Feels Like the Game Is Rigged by harry8 on Monday February 01, 2021 @02:36AM (#25986462)
Have you tried that advice at Melvin?

Size of the market doesn't change the risk you carry of wrong assumptions. Have LTCM if you want another spectacular failure of risk management with wrong assumptions like these. There's plenty more when you're done with that one.

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