• themeatbridge
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    2721 year ago

    What’s it called when you fuck up and accidentally make millions of dollars? Oh, right, fraud.

      • roguetrick
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        131 year ago

        Eh, they’re off hours traders anyway. They’re gambling speculators by definition. Who cares about 'em.

      • @[email protected]
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        111 year ago

        The market is only real because people believe in it. Unless you plan to be on the board of a company, the stock is worth exactly the expected dividend, which most stocks no longer pay. There is no intrinsic value to a stock… people will pay you a spot price today only because of the expectation they will sell at a higher price later. Without that belief, there is no value.

      • @anarchyrabbit
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        91 year ago

        Retail traders have zero chance against the big corps and hedgies. Manipulation is rife

      • @[email protected]
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        71 year ago

        If misreported data makes the system not work, that just means the system’s designed to work on real information not fake information.

        • @Emotional_Sandwich
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          21 year ago

          How is a system supposed to know if self reported information is accurate or not? The stock market fluctuates based on bad info all the time.

          • @[email protected]
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            61 year ago

            In theory these kinds of disclosures are heavily regulated, and there are consequences for reporting incorrect info. I’m curious to see if that holds true here.

    • Neato
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      321 year ago

      He should have to pay a fine equal to twice what he would have earned from the stock increasing. Even if the stock plummets.

      Don’t fuck up your financial statements, dude.

        • @[email protected]
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          41 year ago

          This could correct itself. Now the company’s financial reports are unreliable, and the uncertainty alone should drop the value of their stock. Risk has a negative monetary value, and these financial reports are now a source of risk.

      • @[email protected]
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        1 year ago

        He hasn’t earned anything unless he sold while it’s up and that would be public information.