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I have made the decision to disband Hindenburg Research

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Re: I have made the decision to disband Hindenburg Research

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Has anyone else publicly copied the Hindenburg investigation/financial model? It's not proprietary AFAIK.

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.

Re: I have made the decision to disband Hindenburg Research

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post #2

Has anyone else publicly copied the Hindenburg investigation/financial model? It's not proprietary AFAIK.

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…

> Shorting tends to be intrinsically harder because the market goes up over time and Americans are generally optimists

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.

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