Rembrandt
the artist
What is the pratical application of this? Is this why there was so much scrutiny after the stock market crash?
It usually involves being intimately aware of a company financial's health and the market they're in. A mix of knowledge and faith. And if you're talking the current one, there's definitely a lot of money being made on people shorting a lot of media/tech companies. Ones that saw a lot of growth during a pandemic, where people were stuck inside and more engaged with that type of content.
So the companies saw a lot of growth which led to people buying more shares but a lot of people gambled that as the pandemic died down, so would subscribers/retention rate/overall engagement. As they report lower numbers of sales or subscribers, they start cutting content, firing people, etc and people sell
So if you're more intimately aware of a market than most, and can gather data from a bunch of sources to forecast a delay or something before a company announces it, you could short the company and make a lot of money.



