Recently an entire collection of changes to how mana is handed out was announced:
Your job is to translate the new announcement into a simple set of actionable tasks that any user could do to shore up their portfolio either before or immediately after the changes go into effect.
If it seems to make sense, people can heart it for the auto-bounty thing.
Should I be selling my long positions now? Under what circumstances? Any rules of thumb? Should I try to get a lot of loans before the changes go into effect or minimize them? Should I put my entire balance on "Resolves in 2100" right now? Answer all these questions and more and get paid! Hopefully other users will contribute to the bounty if they feel it was valuable advice.
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Since it didn't generate much action and we seem to have run out of time, I'm closing this one and moving all the remaining bounty over to:
/Eliza/come-up-with-a-scheme-that-will-res
Decide the maximum amount of time you’d like to wait for your mana to be unlocked, I choose a year. Go to your limit order tab and cancel anything that’s:
A) not time limited, or open past the period you choose.
B) on a market that doesn’t resolve until beyond that period.
This way a limit order you have open and forgotten about won’t suck up your mana and lock it away where you can’t get a loan on it.
Very simple/obvious, but perhaps practically useful:
Go to trades tab
Sort in reverse by close date
Look for any bets you’ve placed with (1) close date many months away, and (2) “time “ (since you placed the bet) <1 month.
This sorting is imperfect, but the loan changes have the greatest impact on recently placed bets (which won’t have been fully loaned back) that resolve soon. You should strongly consider if these bets are ones you actually want to be stuck with (especially since selling will incur a fee).
For a quick rule of thumb, bets placed today should loan back a bit under ~half their value before the loans stop. So if there are markets where you’d like SOME loans back, it’s best to place those bets today to max out the number of daily loans to can take before they’re gone.