The Metals Desk Riddle
Priya and Marcus are junior analysts on a metals desk. Dana, the desk's star trader, just closed a very profitable position in a single metal at a single lot size, and teases them with a list of ten candidate positions: Silver: , , or lots. Nickel: or lots. Cobalt: or lots. Tin: , , or lots. She then whispers only the metal to Priya and only the lot size to Marcus, and the two talk it out: Priya says, "I can't tell which position it was — and I'm certain you can't either." Marcus replies, "I couldn't at first, but now I can." Priya then says, "Then now I know it too." Which metal did Dana trade, and in how many lots?
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