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Re:Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberr... by Person5478 on Thursday January 28, 2021 @10:41AM (#25943555)
If it were not so shorting wouldn't be considered high risk...
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Re:Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberr... by adrr on Thursday January 28, 2021 @11:33AM (#25944437)
If you remove the short squeeze part. It is still a pump and dump. Someone is going to be holding the bag when the stock comes back down. That is going to be retail investors.
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Re:Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberr... by sigstoat on Thursday January 28, 2021 @11:10AM (#25944094)
short positions are inherently higher risk than long positions because your upside is finite, and the downside is unbounded.

(this is why you might want to... hedge your shorts.)

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