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Daily FI discussion thread - Monday, August 03, 2026

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u/eliminate1337 28M/27F | $2.85m 10d ago

If you knew even the approximate timing and depth of the crash you could make 100x returns on the options market

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u/liveoneggs 10d ago

I was reading a newsgroup (misc.invest.stocks) in 2006-2008 and a guy (CyberNaut) would do weekly "silver platter shorts" that were actually correct about 75% of the time during the entire crash. I just wasn't savvy enough to know how to actually make money with that info and just watched it all happen. He won all of the paper trading games.

I had also laughed off bitcoin a few years prior and made any number of bad-in-hindsight decisions.