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I don't think that's how time-travel works in this story.
<never mind this part> Aka DO NOT MESS WITH TIME. </never mind this part>
It's already been stated to be impossible to change your test scores in Hogwards, I think that rules out making fortunes with time travel too, which many people would be highly motivated to do if it were possible; that's not what the world looks like in the story.
I sure hope Harry gets out of this mess somehow, though. The last few chapters have been painful.
EDIT: how do you use strike-out formatting around here? Is it even possible?
It is. Winning on the stockmarket with this time-travel system is barely any different (in terms of mere physics) than using it as a sleep aid.
In a fantasy world this ad hoc most of the wizarding population has to be holding the idiot ball most of the time for things to be as they look in the story.
We're talking about Eliezer!HP, not Rowling!HP.
If using time travel in this way is possible (I maintain it already has been explained it isn't), that opens up a million plot holes and so I predict EY won't go there.
You are wrong. We've already seen more complicated information exploitation scenarios than this.
Narrative necessity dictates that he probably won't.
In the "DO NOT MESS WITH TIME" case, he tried to manipulate time-loop paradoxes in his favour.
In what Xachariah suggests, he'd just be manipulating the stock markets, not deliberately attempting to construct time paradoxe. Therefore I don't think it qualifies as "messing with time".