DaddleDew @ DaddleDew @lemmy.world

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It absolutely is a gamble, a dangerous gamble. Essentially, when you short a stock, you "borrow" a stock from someone with the promise of giving it back at a certain time. You then sell it, wait for it to drop, then buy it back. You give it back, usually sharing some of the profits you've made with the person you've borrowed it from.

The problem with that is that if the stock goes up while you've borrowed it, you need to buy it back at the deadline of the deal at the price it happens to be at. Unlike normal stock trading where you can only lose up to the money you've invested, there is no limit to how much money you can end up losing shorting stocks if things don't go the way you expected. This is how the whole GameStop stock shorting debacle happened.

Real reason: His "advisers" cashed out from shorting the stock market and bought stocks back.

When he says he's going to "pause" the tariffs that means that they're coming back just like it happened to Canada. He's going to jerk off the world economy like that for as long as he's in power.

IDK if it's a pump and dump scheme but it sure does look like it. Meanwhile the world will decouple itself from the US economy.

I bet his tariff-loving aides have shorted a bunch of stocks and are making hand over first right now.

Only $4000 for the entry model. That's how much it costs once the tariffs on the semiconductors that you simply cannot produce in the country for at least 10 more years even if you tried has been covered, the salaries high enough to motivate people to willingly work the assembly lines now that immigrant workers are gone, and the markup needed to cover the cost of completely creating an entire supply chain from scratch as well as paying back the insane debt that results from the outrageous high risk investments this would require and that frankly no investor would want to touch with a 10 foot pole.

It's a sign of greed. Musk wants to sell his Teslas and doesn't care about stepping all over Trump's "plans" for it.

I can't wait to see his reaction to that.

Now that's a flex.

Will he be shooting a rifle in the air for the entire duration?

Trump showed up to a war of wits completely unarmed.

It just went back down $200. This spike lasted 15 minutes.

There was a brief $200 spike that lasted 15 minutes and then went back down to where it was. Looks like someone with a lot of money made a bid to "buy the dip". Absolutely nothing to justify this headline.

Trump right now "Trust me, I know what I'm doing! Things will get better soon it will be worth it! I promise!".

Says the compulsive liar who bankrupted 4 casinos, repeatedly stiffs his business partners and only began making real money in corruption schemes.

Trump is a repeat offender. Can you imagine him being sent to those prisons? He wouldn't even make it past the first day.

Dip then in oven-melted brie and it will be perfect

*Edit: the person who downvoted clearly never had it.

Fret not, says the president, he is apparently playing chess while the world is playing checkers

He's trying to treat the entire country like one of the casinos he bankrupted to screw over his creditors.

I'm sure he thinks he's playing chess. But what he's really doing is sitting in the corner eating the pieces.

Boot straps. Don't forget about the boot straps.

Depressing fact: Most of the homeless people you see acting all crazy and talking to themselves all the time behaved normally when they started being homeless. It's spending years in complete isolation, being constantly ignored by everyone around you and having no one to talk to that makes you act like this.

What the US needs is an exorcist

That's what Trump wants after all. To move production inside the country.

Their plan is to not have fair elections anymore.