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Comment by anoncoward111

There is a much larger global prediction market that comes with its own set of nuances and quirks, and that of course is the stock market. You can even get involved with no fee at all through Robinhood, but you will have to fill out some annoying and potentially costly IRS forms.

If I could paraphrase Charlie Munger, in the stock market, the only people who are successful long term are those who bet massive sums, very rarely, when they are sure that the price of a security is severely and unproperly valued.

If Tesla is currently trading at $355, and you have evidence for yourself that it should be worth something like $0 or $3,000, then this would be an example of the current market prediction being extremely wrong.

A stock's price is really just a prediction of the company's future cash flow in the event of profits, losses, sale of assets, so on.

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