Explain the stock exchange scene in Trading Places?

ooops… ten days late, bumped the wrong thread.

Apologies.

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I know this isn’t CS but this really isn’t a CS question. In Trading Places, I understand why Dan and Eddie’s characters are selling their stocks of OJ while the price is high, but why do they all of a sudden start to buy when the stock is hit low? That I don’t get. I mean, is there any logic to this? Buying a bunch of stock that low?
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“Buy low, sell high”, perhaps?

Money is made when the stock is purchased, not when it’s sold.

It makes a lot of sense to me. :wink: