2 ms·
Actors on the long side can also be (and sometimes are) fraudulent, so this is not an argument against short selling.
by maest 6y ago
Actors on the long side can also be (and sometimes are) fraudulent, so this is not an argument against short selling.
- xkjkls 6y agoMore even so, longs always are going to have greater financial incentive and financial power to publish fraudulent news and research. No one should publish fraudulent research in an attempt to affect a stock, but if we were to invest our resources, we should be more focussed on the long side than the short side.
- bryanlarsen 6y agoCompanies rarely hide good news, so fraudulent good news is much harder to pull off.