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There are no protections against trolls. At this point a dedicated group of less than a hundred could probably take over the vote.

I'd actually love to see more dedicated troll attacks. So far the main attack seems to buy $SEB since it's so expensive, but sometimes it later gets sold at a profit.

Personally, I've mentally written off the $50k so, I'll just be enjoying the show.

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So in other words, you're basically counting down till the point someone posts it on 4chan or another notorious image board somewhere.

Good to know you've written of the $50K, because if those guys decide to mess around with this, that money is basically going straight out the window.

Isn't the ability to buy stocks that are going to go down effectively the ability to (short) the same stocks and make infinite money?

But how do you deliberately lose money? I think there's this idea that you could tank a portfolio with ease, but if that were true, shorting would be incredibly lucrative.

It's just as hard to lose money on stocks as it is to gain them (aside from racking up trade fees or something).

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