Well toilet paper is made from trees, which you can short with Random Length Lumber futures lol, but I understand how toilet paper can shortage up, but when it comes to computers, everything is digital, once the hardware is updated, we will be able to compute beyond measure. Its getting ridiculous already, whats that law that says computing power moves via power laws and doubles every "x" amount? Idk, wtf i'm talking about.. Have a safe week Pinetboltz, you trading this week?
Volume is not that high. Only about double what it normally is. When news first came out it was 3x 4x maybe. Brokers can handle that (good ones)
you're probably thinking of moores law if they had toilet paper futures i'd be all ovre that stuff, would even consider taking physical delivery of those too yes, traders gotta trade...any ideas in particular you recommend? personally i've just been scalping FX futures
in 2020, there is no more greater example of "social distancing" than the global financial markets. There is no reason to close a financial system which allows capital flows into and out of business entities to fund the economy. There are 10,000 reasons not to fuck with it.
MMs are people too, and most importantly they are a business. If they can't create a trade where they can profit it would be suicide to try to make a market. It would be in their best interest for the market to come to screeching halt and then offer a firesale, rather than trying to either dump their holdings (again, who takes the other side?) or buy more. The legend goes JP Morgan "restarted" the market by offering to buy and sell after no one was willing to anymore. The veracity of this is contested but it sure does make a good story.
Amen to that, and they sure as fuck don't need halts either. Doesn't seem like true capitalism. Some will fall, some will rise, and new blood always comes in.