Not personally considering this, but is there any reason why this wouldn't work?
>find resource which is used in a shitton of products (eg. metals like gold and copper, palm oil, MSG, whatever. Preferably non-perishables) and stockpile like a motherfucker.
>wait until demand goes up or cost of producing increases
>sell everything at a profit that is now relatively cheap
>>1014355
How are you going to predict when these things will go up in price and how will you gather billions of dollars to put any sort of dent in the market cap?
>>1014358
Good points. I assumed it would go up due to the supply that you take away but that would cost way too much money to be practical.
Do you reckon a company of people may be able to pull it off?
>>1014355
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornering_the_market
It is very difficult because traders often sell in small chunks, if someone keeps buying the chunks they raise the price long before you buy a significant proportion of the total supply.
>>1014355
> That episode of Always Sunny where they buy gasoline
>>1014359
>Do you reckon a company of people may be able to pull it off?
No. Unless you somehow hold a monopoly on one of these commodities you would not be able to do so.
>>1014363
This person is correct. Read the entries on the Hunt brothers and Hamanaka. Wall Street was unhappy with what they did and killed them on their attempt.
>>1014355
Just do some arbitrage instead.
>>1014355
Buy some phosphorus and wait 200 years.
