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> Hedge funds do this to each other every day. Do you have a source for this?
by Tinyyy 6y ago
> Hedge funds do this to each other every day.
Do you have a source for this?
- ordinaryradical 6y agoStart with Matt Levine or Michael Lewis if you want to see how games are played. For eg, here’s an insane one from last fall on negative oil futures: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-08-04/some-people-made-money-on-negative-oil-prices https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-08-04/some-p...
- Person5478 6y agoIf it were not so shorting wouldn't be considered high risk...
- sigstoat 6y agoshort positions are inherently higher risk than long positions because your upside is finite, and the downside is unbounded. (this is why you might want to... hedge your shorts.)
- adrr 6y agoIf you remove the short squeeze part. It is still a pump and dump. Someone is going to be holding the bag when the stock comes back down. That is going to be retail investors.