2 ms·

I was an investment professional from 2001 to 2009 and I never heard anyone say "short and distort". https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=%22pump+and+

by romed 8y ago

I was an investment professional from 2001 to 2009 and I never heard anyone say "short and distort". https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=%22pump+and+dump%22%2C%22short+and+distort%22&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2C%22%20pump%20and%20dump%20%22%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=%22pump+and+du... "Ngram not found: short and distort"

codewell 8y ago
Perhaps it's a newer term. Now "short and distort" is around, for instance prominently as section 3 in the wikipedia article on "pump and dump" [0], and investopedia [1] also describe it. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump_and_dump https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump_and_dump [1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/shortanddistort.asp https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/shortanddistort.asp