Assertion: speculation | /r/HasProperty | profitable
Facets:
value: at times
type: TEMPORAL
value: over the long term
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: It can be profitable over the long term when engaged in by professionals, who often limit their losses through the use of various Hedging techniques and devices, including Options trading, Selling Short, Stop Loss Orders and transactions in Futures Contracts.
text: Both investment and speculation can be profitable at times and bring losses at the other.
text: In fact, the classical financial educators (CFA, CAIA curriculum's) would argue that speculators would take the opposite site of those hedgers, so speculation is profitable because hedgers want to buy insurance.