05-24-2015, 10:00 PM
Walrus Wrote:people do that in real life, though, where they buy stocks they can't actually afford in the hopes that the price will go up and they can immediately sell them, pay back the original seller, and pocket the differenceWalrus Wrote:Marquesas Wrote:Also, I'm curious how you managed to pay the deposit for some company with values in the quadrillion range, unless that's not checked properly.
There was a borrow option that appeared after the bubble started. 700 stocks for in exchange for 58% of 100,000,000,000,000,000... sounded like a solid deal.
OH, I only just realized what you meant by that. Yeah the deposit amount doesn't seem to check if you have the money. Some broke shmuck can just borrow stocks if he feels like it.