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Others have probably commented, but a far easier way to make the big bucks in a stock panic than "buy low, sell high" is to sell short. It's how a few guys made mega-bucks on the mortgage securities crash back in '07-'08. I can't decide why Robb didn't use shorting the stocks, because Rourke would certainly know how. Maybe she thought it was too complicated to try to explain in the book? Dunno. But it's weird to me.