If you mean obfuscating an answer to a plainly asked question, you might be correct ;>
I haven't had a good schooling experience growing up, so I'm asking the question to learn and hopefully become more well rounded.
Don't beat yourself up. It didn't make sense and neither did the reply.
In another content they wrote "hope they raise a financial instrument just so I can short the living daylights out of it". So that's what they're cryptically referring to.