[Tinyyy]

> Hedge funds do this to each other every day.

Do you have a source for this?

[Person5478]

If it were not so shorting wouldn't be considered high risk...

[adrr]

If 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.

[sigstoat]

short 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.)

[ordinaryradical]

Start 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-p...