Why Trading Onions on Financial Markets is Illegal
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Ravioli galeoli
Muaj më parë
And the brick vid
Joseph Reagan
2 muaj më parë
Does this mean that I could theoretically start an onion mafia? And trade onions on the black market?
love nest
2 muaj më parë
I sense that your more recent videos had more comedy in them than actual content, I appreciate your comedy and jokes, i think it is quite hilarious and funny, but sometimes it is overdone and there is less knowledgeble content in the video i think. Next time, just make a 3 minute video instead of filling it up with too many jokes. Just a word of advice, other than that, your videos are great. keep up the great work!
Maarten Canters
2 muaj më parë
Why is there incredibly HD stock footage of an onion falling into water
RoyalGummyWorm
2 muaj më parë
althe.info/number/zHykpGqybHxmeJk/video
Lol ... it's not a new thing in India we have been doing these kind of hording for over 1000 year 😂
The og Spiffing Brit lol
stonks
Something smells of tulips.
This video made me a communist
Bath tub reference is from the Big Short.
Yes,But I'm big brain so I make my own
I feel like banning onion futures is like slapping a bandaid on it and not addressing the problem that leads up to this in the first place in that someone can corner the market at all. Like good job, you didn't fix anything, someone could theoretically do this with something other than onions still.
Moral of the Story: Scalping is bad for everyone!
Honestly they should leave the market back on its own and just put the guy responsible for a whole lot of lost food in jail for 20 years or so.
Quick, let's trade onions while the government is distracted by Covid.
Wonder of this concept would work nowadays with another product, hmmm time to look into ornamental gourd futures.
Couldn't they just import them from another country?
We all know its because Onionbot is too good at correctly predicting the weather
who in what world cuts the onion with the skin still on it
It seems like it'd have been better to go after him with antitrust laws and market manipulation. Basically rip his futures away and ban him from ever trading in the markets again.
If that farmer had qll the infinity stones he would have snapped and all the onion prices would have dropped by half
One Giant Onion: my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined
Wait, but is trading carrots legal?
Gnomes Underpants Economics right there
I think the term is "monopoly".
My onion is safe in my garden and he doesn't own any of it :))
I feel like this could make for a great TV movie; Cuddlebuns: The man who made America cry
The best decision I ever made in my life was investing in the forex market 😊
Joyner Lewis
12 ditë më parë
You're really killing this Roseline. Keep up the good work.
Paul Livermore
12 ditë më parë
@Jude Boxley For real!
Paul Livermore
12 ditë më parë
@Brianna Trower Do you make consistent profits off this?
Paul Livermore
12 ditë më parë
@Roland Armandar Same here lol
Bjorn Gunnarsson
12 ditë më parë
Thanks a lot for the recommendation.
Its always the onions.
“I’m a god damn onion mason”
althe.info/number/rqjXe22al2aHqro/video
3:48 What the FUCK is up with your audio mixing dude this is so much louder than everything else in the video
Take a shot every time they say “onion”
Thumbnail: A big arrow pointing that says "stinks" at hai’s logo
How did he short onions if he owned all the onions?
25.8069 Square root of 666. Nice.
that thumbnail is *to* good
And what about that time when Eddie Murphy tried to corner the orange market ?
Do onion *bots* count?
me: (sees title) this might be intresting HAI: plays "mas queso" at the start me: *SUB*
And if I plant onions? Me: "if he steps here I'll stab em"
Thumbnail got me, ffs
Me: I want to sleep ALthe: Don't you want to know why onions aren't traded?
So potentionaly if you have enugh money you can buy the whole marked on one thing and the sell it at an inflated price to make a metric-crap tun of money.
So it's fine to keep people from receiving life-saving medication by making it cost an ungodly amount, but they put a ban on trading just onions because one guy made a monopoly out of it instead of actually focusing on the root of the problem. Gotcha.
Jesus this guy is too much rofl
So what no one had onions in 1955? How did no one notice this lol?
When life gives you sour onions make sour onionade
i thought this was the onion lol
*one man proves huge flaws in Capitalist system that could be applied to just about any commodity* Politicians: "bAn OnIoNs"
O N I O N S
I love raw onions but ok
I swear to God, i had an economics test in October of 2020 where one of the tasks was "Determine the price and supply that leads to economic equilibrium on the onion market". Then again, one of the possible answers for "A monopoly is a market in which..." was "...old people are given things for free", so maybe it's just a coincedence.
AKINSOFT!!!!
Who knew the real _stalk market_ was Onions, not Turnips
I HAVE A FEELING HUMMUS IS GOING TO BE BIG
And that’s on ✨monopolies✨
I thought this was satire for almost the whole video. My goodness
i just wonder why trading althe.info/number/sqeSpWqHap2qmLI/video is isnt legal on financial markets
Animal crossing is illegal
For anyone who cares enough to be curious but not enough to do basic math the price of onions dropped by about 97% which is completely buttfuck insane for any commodity on Earth
daisy mae: heheh im a criminal
It sounds like he tor up the onion market.
Abusing capitalism is a high like no other
Hey do a video on good's vs bad's in regards to comodity's
Step 2: Stonks
Onion Farmers: "We're going bankrupt because of this market manipulation" Government: "Ban onion futures" Onion Farmers: "Now we can't sell our onions at a fixed future price" Government: "And?"
Anybody disappointed that he didn't keep listing the future of onions?
The point is that I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time.
Can you corner the aids market?
If i find someone snitching they finna wake up with onions up their asses
*Fun Fact=* The first guy who lost millions through investing his money into shares of onions cried so hard that it cursed all the last of the onions left in this world *and that's why onions make you cry.* True fact.
Petition for HAI to finish his top 50 theories about onions
Lol
Commie
Future markets the biggest scam going.
ALL the onions? That’s shallot of onions.
That thumbnail just sold it to me and I haven't even seen the video yet
Not gonna lie, I was not expecting that bath scene. There was a lot more skin than I’m used to in an HAI video
did anyone else spend the entire time expecting this to be about something else and he was just using onions as a cover so you'd be like wow that's ridiculous when he revealed it at the last second?
...and they just made selling water futures a thing. Might be better to make water futures illegal and onion futures legal...
FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIER DOMINATION
So I shouldn’t be trying to buy up all the onions in Animal Crossing anymore then?
Onion is a great stuff to sell tho.
2:03 the Dutch: *Tulip Mania bubble crash in the 17th century flashbacks*
Am an accountant, can agree that description is "much."
That’s why Davos Seaworth had to smuggle them in the first place.
Explain why this does not aplies to diamonds too?
I just liked the thumbnail, that’s why I’m here
-Nirmala Seetharaman has entered the chat.-
Total Onion Domination = Onionopoly
I don't need sleep, I need answers
Kinda sounds like a monopoly
love the content(and the puns) but maybe too many stock videos, lol
3:47 lololololololololololol
3:06 *nice*
CME is the same futures market that adopted Bitcoin, lol didn't know about this stuff
Wouldn't the interest be massive long term if they used futures, don't really get your point unless he had his own exchange
This makes me cry.
WHY IS NO ONE MENTIONING THE BEST MOVIE REFERENCE EVER
So, rather than taking this example of a flaw in capitalism and making it illegal to buy up entire markets, they decided that this is a problem with onions somehow and made farmers' lives more difficult. Great job.
And the banning hurt onion farmers...allowing the market to resolve this long term would’ve been the right play.
He couldn’t stop a new onion farmer from stepping in and capturing profit from his artificially inflated price....this isn’t like cornering the gold market. A big landowner could just decide to start onion farming after the massive price increase.