• helenslunch
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    11 months ago

    Why must someone upset at potential losses turn them into actual losses?

    …if they were concerned about “actual losses”, they would be selling their shares so they would not turn into actual losses. But they don’t care, and they know no one else does either, beyond complaining about it on Twitter.

    • Jtotheb@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Sorry, I forgot that when you want to sell a bunch of stocks everyone just buys them all at your preferred high price, and then the price magically goes down after