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by Person5478 1973 days ago
If it were not so shorting wouldn't be considered high risk...
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adrr 1973 days ago
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.
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sigstoat 1973 days ago
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.)

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