@feelmyring, because the risk is a lot lower. Metacritic futures are lower volatility. Risk and return are alway related. Trading sales futures are not any better because your risk is going up with the return. As someone previously mentioned, the actual return on any investment is just based on how mispriced it is (how difficult it is to predict). In that case you are getting compensated for the difficulty--and it is not necessarily a better deal (likely not).
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