Although VXX has a very strong downtrend, I am not a fan of developing short strategies on it due to
the huge upside risk.
Not exact matches
The potential
upsides are
huge, but so are the financial
risks.
Pick 54 — TE Dallas Goedert (South Dakota State)--
huge run on defense right before the pick, was best available Pick 78 — LB Malik Jefferson (Texas)-- last LB we took out of Texas turned out well for us (bye DJ), probably more of an OLB for us Pick 86 — DL Dashawn Hand (Alabama)-- getting him here is good value for splash plays, needs more consistency but worth the
risk Pick 124 — DL B.J. Hill (North Carolina State)-- #more meat for the trenches Pick 199 — Edge Dorance Armstrong JR (Kansas)-- at this point in the draft he's well worth the
risk for the
upside Pick 211 — DL Lowell Lotulelei (Utah)-- #more meat for the trenches Pick 233 — OL Bradley Bozeman (Alabama)-- another C / G option for our line with experience on a good line / team, also see #meat / trenches Pick 243 — LB Skai Moore (South Carolina)-- here's the WILB everyone wants way down in the 7th round
I think long term downside
risk is very limited with USO, but
upside potential could be
huge from here.
The latest IPO or crypto - coin might have
huge potential
upside but it has
huge downside
risk too.
And I still prefer European equities: In my opinion, lower corporate margins, cheaper valuations, Europe's position (vs. the US) in the economic cycle, and the ECB's
huge & still untapped firepower (vs. that of the Fed), all present a superior
risk - reward proposition — in terms of market
upside, and in terms of potential restructuring and M&A.
At least I factored in a
huge margin of safety in the (smaller) size of my position, and the (higher)
upside potential involved — for
risks like this, among others.
While the
upside isn't
huge, and there is still some small
risk that the plan will not be approved by stockholders, we think NSTR presents a reasonable prospect for a good (but not great) return in a short time frame.
Seeing that, you either envisage
huge potential
upside (and an Irish economy that's painfully, but successfully, adjusting), and perhaps you're already investing in / considering Green REIT — or you're horrified by such a disaster (and Ireland's economy & Debt / GDP ratio), and wouldn't touch Green REIT even if it was the last damn stock on earth... I prefer to focus on the
risks myself — the
upside usually takes care of itself:
Investors were getting a
huge dose of the downside
risk, complete with numbers, but the
upside story was more difficult to explain.
Given the
huge upside price potential of a Bitcoin ETF approval and limited downside as the price of bitcoin has been stabilizing, it is not surprising that more traders are buying bitcoin and, thereby, pushing up the price as bitcoin's current
risk / return ratio is positively skewed toward the
upside.
If you can accept the
risk, it seems that the
upside is
huge given that the demand in those areas are the highest they've ever been.