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Short selling is necessary and good as a stopgap measure, but there's at least one good reason we shouldn't want it to be a go-to reward strategy. Most investm
by vec 12y ago
Short selling is necessary and good as a stopgap measure, but there's at least one good reason we shouldn't want it to be a go-to reward strategy. Most investments have a bounded worst-case loss. You can only lose as much money as you put into it. Short selling, however, is backwards; you have a strictly bounded best-case profit and the theoretical maximum loss is infinite.