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knoid

Stock Market - any way to short stocks?

So in the real world, you can take a short position by borrowing stocks from a lender, selling them on market at the current price, waiting for the price to drop, buying back the same number of stocks, returning them to the lender and then pocketing the price difference.

I can't see a way to do this with CC stocks - I thought perhaps the loans might be a mechanism to allow shorting stocks, but no. Am I missing something?

Posted Sep 9, 2020, 4:46 PM UTC

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EViLTeW•

I don't think it's that deep. Buy low, sell high. The loans are for stacking your CPS a lot for a short time in return for dropping your CPS a little for a long time.

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knoidOP•

Yeah, I'm doing decently at long positions, but it'd be really nice to short some stock as I'm watching it drop.

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DifferentAnon•

Calls and puts when

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Str0mboli•

NUT 65c 9/23

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knoidOP•

Oi calls 'em stocks, and oi puts em over 'ere.

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Hllrn•

You're not missing anything - there is no way to short stocks in CC.

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knoidOP•

Thought so, just double-checking. Thanks!

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chriswokesmart•

One way to make money on stocks for which the price is falling is called short selling (or going short). Short selling is a fairly simple concept—an investor borrows a stock, sells the stock, and then buys the stock back to return it to the lender.

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