How Porsche Hacked the Financial System and Made a Killing

What is documented here is extremely difficult to do in markets that encourage transparency.  It was done a lot in the early 1900s before the data became more accessible, much to the chagrin of many an investor (if you haven’t, you MUST read Reminiscences of a Stock Operator which is an excellent lesson) but to see it done in more modern times given exchange laws and transparency is quite a coups.  Not sure whether to be scared or hat tip ze Germans.

(via Hacker News)

28 September 2011 ·

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