Ads emphasize positive outcomes and gloss over negative ones.
You’ve seen the ads for prediction markets. And the ads for online gambling. Not that I’m saying that futures trading is gambling, mind you.
Now when you see the ads, the people making the predictions ALWAYS win. Because people HAVE won with Kalshi or Polymarket, and why not emphasize the positive?
But the discerning viewer knows that every “game” has winners and losers. And if the ads were real, half of them (give or take) would end like this.
But it could be worse: much worse. Because the Kalshis and Polymarkets of the world differ from other futures trading. Google Gemini:
“Unlike traditional futures where $100 acts as a down payment to control a massive contract, Kalshi and Polymarket are fully collateralized. When you place a trade, you are buying “shares” in an event (like “YES, the Fed will cut rates” or “NO, it won’t rain tomorrow”).”
So you invest $100 and may lose $100. In hog futures, you can lose a lot more.
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