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Re:TerraUSD crash led to vanished savings, shattered dreams by KMag on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @12:01AM (#31831887)
> You’re basically describing options.

Well, with vanilla options, you'd need a basket of options to both reasonably closely replicate performance of a broad index (the "responsible vehicle" part) and also a small percentage of the time hitting a big pay-out. Presumably, you'd want mostly short-duration at-the-money calls on a low-fee broad-index ETF (so they often end up owning the ETF), and a small number of deep out-of-the money puts and calls on volatile micro-cap single names to get that sweet sweet irregular reinforcement dopamine hit.

This is not investment advice.

Re:TerraUSD crash led to vanished savings, shattered dreams by sumy23 on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @12:10AM (#31831933)
I don't think investing in short-term at-the-money options would be a good strategy because you'd lose a lot to premiums. It'd be better package long positions on the low-fee ETFs mixed with some deep otm options as an investment vehicle. Love the concept!
Re:TerraUSD crash led to vanished savings, shattered dreams by KMag on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @12:53AM (#31832176)
Sorry, I thought we were talking about restricting ourselves to using strictly a basket of vanilla options.