Alex Osipovich
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 5d ago
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The idea is that you will be able to bet on stocks going up or down, and in contrast to actually just holding the stock, you would be able to use these products to get leverage.
So putting down a small amount of money and potentially amplifying your profits or losses if the stocks move in the direction that you're betting on.
So for example, you can get a leveraged ETF on a particular stock that'll allow you to
get 2x or 3x leverage.
So the fans of these products are people who uh want to have new ways of trading things, people who have gotten accustomed to the crypto world and the sort of things you can do there, would like to do them in stocks.
The disadvantage and what the critics say is that these are very risky products and you will have a lot of people blown out of the water faster than they can blink, essentially, if there's a sharp move in the market.
There is potential to use these contracts to protect against the risk that you might get hit with a wave of cancellations.
The way that the contract is structured is that within a particular time frame, if the percentage of flights canceled at a certain airport exceeds a certain threshold, then you will get paid some money.
The wrinkle, though, is that you can't
hedge against the risk of your specific flight being canceled.
That would probably be too small of a market for Kalshi.
You might be able to monitor these markets to see the likelihood of cancellation.
So there is kind of an information value in it.
You could say, oh, well, I guess I have a flight next week coming out of LAX.
Let me go see what the people trading on prediction markets are forecasting in terms of cancellations.
And that could become a metric that we start to use.
If you want to bet on Bitcoin going up, you can just buy Bitcoin.
But you can also bet on Michael Saylor and strategy because you know that not only is your money when you invest in strategy going to be used to purchase Bitcoin, but it'll be used to purchase more Bitcoin.
And if his stock goes up, he'll issue more stock, sell it and use it to buy Bitcoin.
So it's kind of a leveraged bet on Bitcoin.
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