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by olympus 4788 days ago
Oh, wow. With numbers that high it never crossed my mind that you were talking about loan interest. Normally the interest you pay to short a stock is single digits, and if you have enough money it can be <1%.

I was thinking of this: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/shortinterest.asp

You can see the short interest in TSLA here published twice a month: http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/tsla/short-interest which is very high compared to AAPL's short interest: http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/aapl/short-interest which hovers around one day to cover.