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Re:Short sellers are good for markets by codewell on Saturday October 13, 2018 @02:01PM (#18209181)
The short version is called short and distort. I'd like to see stats on which is more common.
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Re:Short sellers are good for markets by romed on Saturday October 13, 2018 @02:06PM (#18209209)
I was an investment professional from 2001 to 2009 and I never heard anyone say "short and distort".

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=%22pump+and+du...

"Ngram not found: short and distort"

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Re:Short sellers are good for markets by codewell on Saturday October 13, 2018 @06:43PM (#18210406)
Perhaps it's a newer term. Now "short and distort" is around, for instance prominently as section 3 in the wikipedia article on "pump and dump" [0], and investopedia [1] also describe it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump_and_dump [1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/shortanddistort.asp

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