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The week's question
In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Said   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Approaching 1 Trillion...
Date: 09/07/24 1:18 AM
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I think that if you are not a day trader, taking a short position on BRK is a dumb risky thing to do. Puts, calls, whatever.
Not nickels. Pennies in front of a steamroller.
And if you *are* a day trader, why would you even be looking at Berkshire?


Another possible perspective: Taking a short position on BRK, thanks to it moving quite reliably in a well defined Price/BV range and it therefore being more predictable, can be less risky than taking a short position on another stock, because of a very high probability that it's Price/BV after breaking out North from that range will return into it by it's price falling.

That applies only if you are not a day trader, as it might take a little time (days/weeks/months) for that "Normalisation" of Price/BV to happen.

That at least was my reasoning for buying puts.

Of course it's more risky than taking a long position where continuing earnings work in your favor, but that's only important for multi-year time horizons where that has a far larger effect than when trying to use an unusually high valuation to make a short/medium term profit.

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