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megadethz | 7 years ago

How much can he get out from this? any way to hedge his exposure to this until lockup expires?

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winslow|7 years ago

Could do similar things to what Mark Cuban did to hedge his exposure of Yahoo stock after the purchase of his company. Basically shorting against your holding [1].

[1] https://www.quora.com/How-did-Mark-Cuban-save-his-wealth-fro...

LanceH|7 years ago

It's not shorting if you're holding, it's just and option.

rhapsodic|7 years ago

>Could do similar things to what Mark Cuban did to hedge his exposure of Yahoo stock after the purchase of his company. Basically shorting against your holding [1].

I interpreted that article to mean that he shorted the sector (Internet) that his holding (Yahoo) was part of, but without appreciably shorting his actual holding. (less than 5% of the fund he shorted.) Had the Internet sector (and therefore the fund) went up while Yahoo went down, he could have lost from both directions.

tw1010|7 years ago

Why would he want to get out of it?