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Shorts are a little unique in that the risk is technically infinite. Stocks you own can only lose whatever value you bought them for. Stocks youve promised to b
by thatguy0900 6y ago
Shorts are a little unique in that the risk is technically infinite. Stocks you own can only lose whatever value you bought them for. Stocks youve promised to buy later from someone else, though, can lose you however much money they decide to charge you when you have to buy. They could have thousands of profitable positions and lose 2 billion off one very unlucky short call because of a meme.
- Triv888 6y agoGood point. Maybe they will learn something?
- thatguy0900 6y agoWell, I can't imagine we'll see any stocks shorted to 128% for a very long time. Probably not much else
- marvin 6y agoNot a chance. The human mind generally isn't built to correctly assess the impact of unlikely, catastrophic events. Maybe they'll steer clear of excessive short selling for a while, but you can be sure they'll forget it eventually. In the meantime, they'll find some other pitfall to step in.