this post was submitted on 11 Oct 2025
255 points (99.6% liked)

Technology

40509 readers
343 users here now

A nice place to discuss rumors, happenings, innovations, and challenges in the technology sphere. We also welcome discussions on the intersections of technology and society. If it’s technological news or discussion of technology, it probably belongs here.

Remember the overriding ethos on Beehaw: Be(e) Nice. Each user you encounter here is a person, and should be treated with kindness (even if they’re wrong, or use a Linux distro you don’t like). Personal attacks will not be tolerated.

Subcommunities on Beehaw:


This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] bodaciousFern@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

So which stock do I short sell - Nvidia, Oracle, or Microsoft?

[–] themagzuz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 days ago

unfortunately you can't really get rich from knowing a bubble will happen. things like shorting, put options, bear certificates, and etfs with inverse leverage either have terrible risk reward ratios (you can basically lose infinite money from shorting, that's what the whole gamestop/amc thing was about) or very bad long-term gains (bear certificates and inverse etfs usually only track day-to-day changes and generally fall in value when the stock they're tracking fluctuates in price).
of course, if you know when the crash is gonna happen, it's a completely different story. then you can buy shorts/puts/etc just before the bubble bursts and laugh yourself to the bank (assuming the firms on the wrong end of those assets haven't gone bankrupt, which is also a very real risk in a situation like this)

[–] definitemaybe@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

The challenge, as always, is to never underestimate a bubble's capacity to outlast your solvency. I personally know people who have been heading against the housing "bubble" in Canada bursting since 1999. They've spent a lot of money with nothing to show for it, yet, and missed out on housing prices, like, quadrupling? Quintupling?

So, good luck. Buying out-of-market puts might be a safer bet, since you're most likely to "just" lose all your money, with a small chance of a massive payout of it "properly" crashes.