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SoftTalkertoday at 1:43 PM4 repliesview on HN

If you are trading in the futures market and you don't have inside info or are not an actual supplier of the commodity, you are the sucker.


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spacebanana7today at 1:52 PM

To be fair, you could also be a real world user of a commodity and productively use futures markets. For example, an airline or trucking company using them to hedge fuel prices.

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jimlawruktoday at 3:18 PM

Isn't there a 50% chance you are betting on the "insider" side of it?

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otterleytoday at 2:45 PM

That logic would also extend to individual stocks, wouldn’t it?

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cindyllmtoday at 1:45 PM

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