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>AMC / APE for another example. Anyone who short sold AMC and bought long APE made bank this past year (before the AMC/APE stock ticker merge there were public documents in December 2022 stating AMCs intention to merge the two one-for-one)

This is called "pairs trading", right? Is there any way it can blow up? Remember that this is AMC, which could be out of business in six months or could go up 3000% in another idiotic bubble.

I made a fair bit of money off Twitter because it was as simple as buying stock at the market rate. Anyone who reads the papers knew the price of Twitter to the penny and could have bought in with a phone call. The sort of trade you're talking about sounds harder to pull off safely. That's no excuse for the hedge funds, of course.