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Short Selling Doesn’t Have to Have Infinite Loss Potential
I often hear people mentioning that if you short a stock your potential loss is infinite. This is because the stock’s price is theoretically unlimited. When you short a stock (which is a bet that pays off when the stock goes down) you are basically trying to buy low, sell high, but ...
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