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by bagacrap 1 day ago
I don't understand why this thing is called a hedge fund. Usually, a hedge fund makes many non-correlated bets across many markets (commodities, stocks, bonds, public and private markets).

This guy made exactly one bet, which is that AI would eat software (long AI hardware stocks, short Adobe etc), leveraged it to the tits, and kept adding more leverage even as the trade moved in his favor.

Where is the "hedge"? Normally we just call this a "fund".