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Re:Ask HN: Anyone have stock option horror stories? by _nalply on Thursday March 17, 2022 @04:06AM (#30708718)
This was fifteen years ago. I realized that something was coming up and decided to sell fonds titles. I opened the online banking system and sent the order. Two days later the crash happened.

Have I been lucky? No.

The bank patiently waited three days before executing the order.

I am afraid they immediately sold the titles and kept the difference. After all no risk here. If the prices would have went up they just would have backdated the sell. I realized why bankers are rich. They have the power and can turn the game to their profit. They just have many possibilities to tweak something such that I lose. </tinfoil>

Ten year later I retried somewhere else, crypto, to realize that the same crowd is also in crypto.

Luckily I didn't go all in. Twice. I can afford the losses.

Re:Ask HN: Anyone have stock option horror stories? by llampx on Thursday March 17, 2022 @01:13PM (#30713479)
This... I can't even understand this. Couldn't you sue the bank/broker for this? Adverse execution?
Re:Ask HN: Anyone have stock option horror stories? by _nalply on Thursday March 17, 2022 @02:18PM (#30714269)
It's covered by their terms of service.
Re:Ask HN: Anyone have stock option horror stories? by tluyben2 on Thursday March 17, 2022 @04:15AM (#30708763)
> to realize that the same crowd is also in crypto.

If you bought btc/eth; so far the crypto believers have been right about one thing at least; when your holdings are down, just hodl. I am aware this can backfire terribly and I have no holdings, but for 12some years, they have been right.

Re:Ask HN: Anyone have stock option horror stories? by attilaperez on Thursday March 17, 2022 @06:47AM (#30709642)
Fresh buy-side momentum and value distortion such as Tether drive up the price. Once that flatlines or even slows down, you get hell.

>for 12some years, they have been right.

This is akin to a child counting on the toothfairy.

https://protos.com/tether-papers-crypto-stablecoin-usdt-inve...

^ Very eye-opening look at the true playbook behind the crypto space. It's very much run by CBOE-derived quant firms running the economy like a casino.

Re:Ask HN: Anyone have stock option horror stories? by tluyben2 on Thursday March 17, 2022 @07:02AM (#30709728)
> This is akin to a child counting on the toothfairy.

I am not recommending anyone does this; I would never and, like said, I do not have any crypto (I had in 2017); I was just commenting that they were right so far, which is indeed saying I am immortal because I didn’t die.