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There's no way he gets margin called, these surely are puts, not pure stock shorting. This isn't some random guy.


No, but everybody here is some random guy, being tempted to mirror trades by the superhero investor they saw in that movie. And that movie depicts Burry trying to outlast the market in this sort of situation, resorting to quasi-fraudulent ideas like taking the phone off the hook; Those ideas are not available to us at all, because the online broker would just seize the account.


Investors can & do make mistakes.

“Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.” ― John Maynard Keynes


Speaking of mistakes, that quote is from A. Gary Schilling rather than Keynes.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/08/09/remain-solvent/


yeah the article is clear they are puts




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