Can investors take advantage of bubbles to make money?

Whether investors can take advantage of bubbles to make money seems to be a more difficult question to answer. Part of the reason for the failure to exploit bubbles seems to stem from greed �even investors who believe that assets are over priced want to make money of the bubble � and part of the reason is the difficulty of determining when a bubble will burst.

Over valued assets may get even more over valued and these overvaluations can stretch over years, thus imperiling the financial well being of any investor who has bet against the bubble.

There is also an institutional interest on the part of investment banks, the media and portfolio managers, all of whom feed of the bubble, to perpetuate the bubble.