But while it is easy to bet on a rise in the future price of some asset, simply by buying the asset, it is not so easy to bet on a fall in that price.

但打赌某项资产未来升值很容易(只需购买该资产即可)，打赌价格下跌却不那么容易。

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I heard about this house the owner had to sell in a hurry, so I got it at a very cheap price. A week later I sold it for a 20,000 dollar profit. Talk about your easy money!

这个好运气的人说：我听说这栋房子的房主急于要出售这房子，所以我以很便宜的价格买进了。一个星期后，我把它卖掉，从中赚了两万美元。这真是轻而易举得来的钱。

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And after spending hours researching, evaluating and immersing yourself in one particular company, it's easy to become enamored while completely missing the actual price action of the market itself.

在经过数小时的研究、评估、把自己沉浸在某个特定的公司后，我们很容易受到迷惑，而彻底错失了市场本身的价格走势。

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With more than 17% of Amylin shares sold short as of May 10, Kliff believes that a huge short squeeze is in the works, with "an easy ten points" added to Amylin's share price in the coming weeks or months.

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Some news, such as unemployment figures and the consumer price index, is relatively easy to distribute in numerical terms.

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You see, as we discussed HERE and HERE , while easy money policies always put price inflation in play, though economically debilitating, it is of relatively minor import.

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