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reticulates • today at 2:02 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Shorting a company is not a trade against the future of a company, it is a trade against the market. You can know a company is going to zero and the company can go to zero and you can still lose your shirt from shorting it.


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wickedsight • today at 2:22 PM

"The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent."

This quote stops me from shorting pretty much anything.