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by nosuchthing 3948 days ago
Sure, but the trader from the article is just a single person with millions.

How many other traders out there look forward to bubble bursting events like this? Commodity disasters? Oil disasters and shortages? The whole "dumb money" (retail trades, casual investments, passive investment funds) vs "smart money" (day traders, hedge funds, insider traders, HFT) would lead me to believe that it's beneficial to exploit the excessive pumping up and bursting of financial bubbles, as it only siphons up 'dumb money'.