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You pay the price of the stock share when you borrow them. I don't call that buying the stock because you don't own the stock. Technicality there..... I call it a holders fee. When you return the stock to the lender you get the price of the stock at that moment in return. So you are either paid...

Basically what you are doing when shorting is borrowing stock shares, holding them and when you return them to the lender if the price is lower than when you borrowed the stock shares you make money. If the price increases then you have to to pay the difference of price from when you borrowed to...

To me it's not. But I'm not going to discount a different interpretation. Sorry if I wasn't clear.

You have to have a margin account for shorting stocks. I never said that. The BORROWED stocks are still bought/sold on the open market.

Never go to Wikipedia for detailed, accurate information. When you establish a short position,you BORROW shares from a broker and return them hoping the price has fallen from when you BORROWED the shares and you pocket the difference.

HAHA! You can't buy/sell stock shares you don't own! Hence "borrowed". You can't short stocks you own.

I forgot SSF - Single Stock Futures

Options are NOT the only way to short a stock. Go to your broker and "borrow shares" of the stock, establishing a short position(on margin). When you are ready to cash in just return the "borrowed shares".

Why cover? Why cover?

Drip, drip, drip.......

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Yes, agree. Sometimes you wonder "how long and when?" The Fed has been pumping until just recently. The chickens have come home to roost. Support? It has exacerbated the economic situation. World food shortages, fuel prices, higher inflation, Europe on the ropes, political and economic...

Well, let me just say in this "environment" good news will be sparse and hard to come by.

Now, as long as there is NO BAD NEWS over the weekend, TSLA just might hold ground for a day to two........ ? I'll be on the watch out though.....?

I've been busy....... ?

Not enough pain yet......more to come

Feeding Frenzy Friday?

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