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Re:Facebook shareholders are getting fed up with Zuckerberg ... by TAForObvReasons on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @03:29PM (#19685656)
You cannot short any stock from most retirement funds

EDIT: for those downvoting, please point to a retirement vehicle that does support shorting

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Re:Facebook shareholders are getting fed up with Zuckerberg ... by mattferderer on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @04:12PM (#19686067)
I didn't downvote but the closest I know you could do to this is buy an inverse ETF that is heavy in Facebook. I don't think there are any inverse ETFs that would even have more than 10% Facebook.
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Re:Facebook shareholders are getting fed up with Zuckerberg ... by amha on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @09:16PM (#19687910)
True, but you can short the stock from elsewhere in your portfolio (i.e., just a standard nonretirement account), and it's economically equivalent (modulo some stuff with taxes).
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Re:Facebook shareholders are getting fed up with Zuckerberg ... by the_narrator on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @08:38PM (#19687702)
Complaining multiple times about being downvoted tends to add to more downvotes.
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