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If you short a bubble before it goes vertical you lose everything.

[fhrjfjfnd]

See the other posts in this thread discussing Nassim Taleb's strategy of small bets spread over time with highly asymmetric rewards. You can afford to lose it all on small bets nine times in a row, if on the tenth bet you achieve a 100x payout.

[the_gipsy]

Yea but where can I play that kind of game?

[CamperBob2]

Just get a job as a principal in a VC firm. Upskill or gtfo

[pyvpx]

Derivatives! more popularly known as options (“calls” and “puts”)