• iii@mander.xyz
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    1 天前

    Isn’t shorting entirely speculative and based on whether anyone is actually watching the stock closely?

    What’s correct about that sentence is that shorting is speculative. It’s a type of contract a person can use, to their financial benefit, if they believe strongly that the market price of a stock or product will decrease.

    Where they get that believe from, is irrelevant. I didn’t follow the gamestop meme closely, so can’t speculate on their believe.

    • Jax@sh.itjust.works
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      1 天前

      Ah, ok. Yeah my understanding was they would short stocks that were likely to decrease in value down the line and that they chose stocks like GS or BB&B because it was unlikely for something like the wallstreetbets shenanigans to happen (emphasis on unlikely).

      Again, I’m not interested in shorting. I feel like I need to emphasize that lol.