"We are still tallying our accounts and settling all our credits before we have our final accounting of the total amount, but this is the ballpark of what our total earnings from this round are," Gabriel, the Chief Investment Officer of the family office, said as he turned the laptop he had carried into the office and slid it toward Rümeysa.
It was March 17th, a day after they finally finished exiting all the short positions and bets that the market would go down, securing the previously hypothetical gains ahead of time. This was despite the market still falling even further; had they remained, they could have earned more money.
However, despite that, no one in the family office or the SPV who was in the know about their investments felt even a smidge of regret. They knew that gains are just hypothetical until they are realized and could disappear in a moment.
