Shorting of a stock is used for both speculation and hedging a position. Tesla has been on a continuous downwards bear trend for the past YTD, so it is very lik

Shorting of a stock is used for both speculation and hedging a position. Tesla has been on a continuous downwards bear trend for the past YTD, so it is very likely that quite a bit of money has been made shorting Tesla up until now. Just because a few players are able to buy Tesla entirely, it does not mean that shorting a position is necessarily bad.