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You are totally missing the point. This one lottery game was set up in a way that if you spend enough money at exactly the right time you are mathematically guaranteed to make more money than you spent. You can't guarantee success in the stock market and certainly not 20% ROI in a few days.

It isn't like they just threw $600k at the lottery blindly hoping for a payout. This was a mathematical analysis.




There was still the massive risk of the strategy being replicated by someone else and then both parties would lose money.




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