Comment by bryanlarsen

5 days ago

Yes, when SpaceX gets added to the index, it's going to skyrocket for just that reason. The other reason why SpaceX stock is going to skyrocket is because of the "infinite potential". After all, Elon is going to be God-Emperor of Mars, and how much is a piece of that worth?

The OP knows this and wants a window to profit from this squeeze. For the general public index owners, the sooner it's added to the index the better, minimizing the time that traders can front run this squeeze ahead of them.

Perhaps better it's not added to the indices at all, but as long as it's inevitable, the sooner the better.

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wredcoll  5 days ago

Being added to the index is literally the only thing causing "the squeeze" according to this description though so how does that benefit either the author or the index holder?

If the stock was added to the index at a normal period then all the shares would be available.

  • bryanlarsen  5 days ago

    The author wants to buy ahead of the indexes and benefit from the squeeze; he wants the normal rules of waiting a year before SpaceX is eligible to join the indexes to apply.

    • cyanydeez  4 days ago

      this is news.ycombinator.com

      Do you think there's some super dominos that happens? If he's trying some combo pump-dump scheme, there's much better places.

      Also, you provide zero counter to the punch, so what is your word worth any more?

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throwaway2037  5 days ago

How will a colony on Mars be profitable?

  • cyanydeez  4 days ago

    Come on man, either we ship the unmentionables, or the billionaires get to live with their robot love slaves.

    Obviously, you don't have enough imagination to keep Musk's ego based cost-proposition elvated.

infinitewars  5 days ago

SpaceX has always been a about convincing private industry to fund the militarization of space.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Dome_(missile_defense_s...

Mars is a thin cover story to get the engineers to feed the War machine. "National security" / nuclear threat is a great excuse to get politicians to sell out the country.

How about we focus on global security?

  • bryanlarsen  5 days ago

    I thought it was obvious that "God Emporeror of Mars" was a satirical answer. There are a whole bunch of new markets that cheap access to space open up. Like Bezos' dream of in-space manufacturing. Or Musk's dream of data centres in space. Or power gen in space. Or the "cis-lunar economy". Or space tourism. Or He3 on the moon. People will buy SpaceX stock for the potential, even if that potential is pretty much worthless and the chance of SpaceX capturing the gains rather than some other company is fairly low.

    "National Security" is just one more in a big list.