[HN Gopher] I have made the decision to disband Hindenburg Research
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       I have made the decision to disband Hindenburg Research
        
       Author : toomuchtodo
       Score  : 28 points
       Date   : 2025-01-15 21:23 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | ilamont wrote:
       | Has anyone else _publicly_ copied the Hindenburg investigation
       | /financial model? It's not proprietary AFAIK.
        
         | rafram wrote:
         | https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-communications/is-h...
        
         | steveBK123 wrote:
         | It's a hard business to make money in. Shorting tends to be
         | intrinsically harder because the market goes up over time and
         | Americans are generally optimists. Plus the last 2 years we've
         | seen 20+% market moves upwards.
         | 
         | Despite it being a necessity for functioning markets, when you
         | are short, seemingly everyone is against you - business
         | management, regulators, media, etc.
         | 
         | Not surprised to see them bow out. Chanos did so last year.
         | 
         | This is one of the reasons frauds go on so much longer than
         | you'd expect - no one wants to hear the truth.
        
           | tines wrote:
           | > Shorting tends to be intrinsically harder because the
           | market goes up over time and Americans are generally
           | optimists
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           | Also, with shorting the best you can do is double your money
           | (if the stock goes to 0), while you can lose an unlimited
           | amount (as there's no cap on a rising stock); whereas with
           | going long, you can only lose all your money (again, if it
           | goes to 0), but you can gain an unlimited amount.
        
         | ipsum2 wrote:
         | There's quite a lot of short sellers that publish their
         | research.
        
       | soniman wrote:
       | 38 seems young to quit. Is there another story here?
        
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