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garply on Jan 4, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why I'm not buying Facebook

They could do it twice. Buy before unblocking it and then short before blocking it again.

nivertech on Jan 4, 2011 [–]

Then they should do many round-trips:

  1. Long $FCBK
  2. Unblock facebook.com
  3. Sell $FCBK 
  4. Short $FCBK
  5. Block facebook.com
  6. Cover $FCBK
  7. go to #1

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