#shorted

2024-04-04

#Traders Are #Betting Millions That #TrumpMedia Will Tumble

Traders Are Betting Millions That #Trump Media Will Tumble

nytimes.com/2024/04/03/busines

> The parent company of #TruthSocial is a popular target for #shortsellers, even after they lost $100 million last month betting on a decline in the stock that didn’t come.

#shorted #shorting #shortselling #ettd

file photo of TV news studio window in NASDAQ building in Times Square, NYC
Chuck Darwincdarwin@c.im
2024-04-04

#Trump #Media is the most “#shorted” special purpose acquisition vehicle in the country,
according to the financial data company S3 Partners.

Short-sellers bet that the price of a stock will #fall.

They do that by borrowing shares of a company and selling them into the market, hoping to buy them back later at a lower price, before returning the shares to the lender and pocketing the difference as profit.

The demand to short Trump Media, the parent company of the social media platform Truth Social, is so great that stock lenders can charge #enormous #fees,
👉making it hard for short-sellers to turn a profit unless the shares fall significantly.

💥Still, there is a lot of interest in taking the bet.💥

nytimes.com/2024/04/03/busines

2019-04-11

This is an interesting concept. Too often, too many people are “shorted by the system”. boffosocko.com/2019/04/11/yout

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