Short Selling Debate
Discussions center on the mechanics, risks, benefits, and strategies of short selling stocks, including questions about why shorting specific companies wouldn't work, its potential to destroy firms, and examples like short squeezes.
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Can you elaborate? Why shorting wouldn't work?
What is the flaw in the understanding of shorting?
Why not making money in the meantime going short?
How does shorting destroy a company destroy it?
Is there some way to short sell this?
Maybe someone is short selling.
It is not "shorting"..
From people who shorted the stocks.
someone seems to be shorting big on their stocks ;-)
You short by selling. See my sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16931793