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To short, you need to pay to borrow shares. And that’s not easy on a stock like DJT. It has a small float, and since professionals consider it overvalued, the premiums are unusually high. It also has an army of retail fans who can produce surprise spikes, meme stock style.

Hedge funds make their money with trades that are not obvious to everyone, because if they were, they’d be too crowded. “Short DJT” is definitely in that category.