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    3 days ago

    Short all these stocks of course. SOXS is a 3 times leverage short on semiconductors if you are feeling bold.

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        2 days ago

        Tesla has been clearly overvalued for years. Had you tried to make money off shorting the stock - despite correctly observing this stock has to collapse at some point - you would have lost your shirt.

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        2 days ago

        Yeah, I wouldn’t take trading advice from a group of people who are desperately hoping a for a certain technology to not exist.

        Is AI overhyped and overused? Absolutely. Is its use doing to decrease? Most likely. Will it “collapse”? Don’t bet on it. Or, well, do - I suppose. It’s your money to lose.

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          I wish u were right. I’m really not convinced its use will decrease. Agents are being weeded into ever bloody service on the internet. AI and the internet will be one thing. AI is convinient and human nature does not like complexity. Humans thrive in environments that make life easy. Internet, social media and amazon are what they are today because of convinience. AI bring convinience! I do not believe that AI will go down … it eill certainly stop growing so quickly but eventually we will find AI in our coffe machine and our toothbrush.

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            Oh no, don’t get me wrong - it’s here to stay. In some fields it will grow bigger, and others it will disappear. We’re now just in a phase where it’s being applied to everything to see what sticks - and that hype phase will come to an end at some point.

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          2 days ago

          As OP of this comment, I fully agree and strongly dissuade anyone from pursuing the ideas I am giving.

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      2 days ago

      Short all these stocks of course. SOXS is a 3 times leverage short on semiconductors if you are feeling bold.

      comments like this inspire me to become financially literate so that i could understand what was said.

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        Basically you borrow a lot of stocks from someone and sell them directly.

        Then you must buy back the same stock in the future and give it back to them (and a bit extra).

        If the stock is cheaper in the future then you earn money. If it becomes more expensive you lose money.

        This is how stock traders gamble on stocks they don’t own but think will lose value. They will find a way to gamble on everything.

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          Basically you borrow a lot of stocks from someone and sell them directly.

          so this SOX thing is an entity that you borrow the stock from?

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        It just means that when they finallystop buying semiconductors to fuel datacenters they aren’t even building and the semiconductor stocks crash, SOXS will go up 3x for every dollar the semiconductors go down. Only problem is that no one can guess when that is, even if many are sure it’s coming. It feels like soon but don’t make financial decisions based on what some idiot says on the internet.

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            2 days ago

            This is probably not a good opportunity for you then. It’s not something a beginner should do. Probably I shouldn’t have brought it up at all.

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                SOXS is just the ticker symbol. You type it into a site like Yahoo finance and you can learn about the security or trade it at your brokerage.

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        2 days ago

        soxs Is actually traded as a normal stock- they do the shorting for you. But since it’s triple leveraged it’s very risky. If you get it wrong you lose 3x the money of a normal short. If you want to learn how to short normally (single leverage) you can ask gemini, I’ve found it to be pretty good with financial training and explaining the ins and outs of specific trading platforms. But know this. With shorting you can go past zero into debt , as a stock can go up more than 100%, so you can lose more than 100% of your money. It’s not really where you should start as a beginner. Maybe a better way to bet against AI is just to bet on old fashioned value stocks or ones paying big dividends, as they are mostly quite beaten down now.