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		lordnacho 13 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Michael Burry a.k.a. "Big Short",discloses $1.1B b... Much simpler: I sat on an option desk for years, and whenever someone had a directional thought, the quip was "why don't you just buy/sell it then?"

blitzar 12 days ago [–]

I would ask the options desk to price it up, decide it was too expensive, and just go short.

Of course they did have a cheaper double no touch broken wing structure that would pay for their next mclaren.

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