Tag: Speculation
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Offshore Investment Strategy of the Rich and Famous
The offshore investment strategy used by the rich and famous (until recently), featured tax avoidance tactics based on trust law. Let’s take a closer look and analyse how these foreign trust examples take advantage of OSP. In this example, Hughes, Katz and the Durands form their trusts in order to safeguard income and property from…
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Global Currency Reset Speculation
Consider the year 1979. In the USSR, the government obstructed price of one ruble is $1.65. Soviet law forbids entry into the country with rubles, meaning tourists are forced to buy the currency at this high price. However, you decide the risk taken in defying Soviet law is worth the potential gain, buy rubles in…
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Great Bear of Wall Street – Jesse Livermore
Jesse Lauriston Livermore (1877 – 1940) was known as the “Great Bear of Wall Street”. He made and lost several fortunes in the stock market using a system he began to develop at age fourteen when he held an entry-level position at a brokerage in Boston. He analysed price and volume data and became expert…
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Short Seller Speculation
An investor can do only one of two things: buy or sell. Establishment brokers, investment bankers, founders and stock promoters are all on the sell side to public investors: the widows and orphans. Generally, insiders acquire shares for next to free from the company’s treasury. They spend energy and money to market these shares to…