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throw0101ayesterday at 10:59 AM1 replyview on HN

> I feel like the stock market is pretty divorced from fundamentals at this point i.e. speculation makes it more like a Keynesian beauty contest (picking stocks you think other people will think are valuable).

Momentum investing is a thing:

* https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/momentum.asp

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momentum_investing

A number of people make / made money when The Market became "divorced from fundamentals": see The Big Short.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Short_(film)

Just remember: "The market remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent." — Keynes, https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/603621


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janalsncmtoday at 4:46 AM

A big part of that movie was Christian Bale’s character betting on a crash, and almost bankrupting his company because the market stayed irrational long enough. Other people probably made the same bet but ran out of time. You have to be right and lucky.