I don't know if others have noticed but some exchanges offer you
Liquidity Provider investment option. Exchanges make tons of money by manually dumping or pumping the price. If their algorithms see that there are lots of short positions and it's a good time to liquidate, then the price goes up a lot for a few minutes and then dumps again. That's what I hate about centralized exchanges and I wish there was a good, trustworthy option.
BlackRock's biggest secret is the secret that we don't know
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It's such a successful company, it owns the world.
blackrock does not need to buy assets. nor liquidate them. and here is their trick. using bitcoin as an example
blackrock have institutional investors acting as their agents.
its these agents that buy the actual bitcoin and act as sponsors to hand the btc over to blackrock, in trust. blackrock then give shares to the agent/sponsor of the trust, which the agent then resell to its own customers.. blackrock take a cut from each trade
so blackrock are entrusted as owners of the btc but never paid for them, yet able to make profit per trade from their agents customers
blackrock might have trillions of assets in trust, but their revenue/income is only $1-$6bill per year
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what you will find its their agents/sponsors that do the trades(longs/shorts). blackrock cant double dip/insider trade
they cant run the market and manipulate due to regulation
Overall, it's funny how easy it is to make money. On paper, it looks the easiest thing on planet earth but in reality, people work so hard and fail so miserable. I don't know about BlackRock but it's one of the dumbest idea to trade with short positions (which I've done and thanks god I was lucky, I'll never repeat).