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by fauigerzigerk 139 days ago
Betting usually has a cost.
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piva00 139 days ago
A fixed one, not one that can suffer snowballing increase in case your bet is wrong.
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fauigerzigerk 139 days ago
Not necessarily. Spread betting doesn't work like that for instance. And shorting a stock can be structured in a way that caps your losses as well. It's just a matter of cost vs potential gains.
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