In investing parlance, to “short a stock” is to make an investment with the view that a stock’s price will decline. On the surface, shorting seems like a fairly easy thing to do for an investor who has skill in “going long”, which is to invest with the view that a stock’s price will rise […]

source: https://thefinance.sg/2024/02/19/shorting-stocks-is-hard-really-hard/