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>This is Why I Don’t Short Anything Anymore - Wolf Richter - 
When you short stocks you actually borrow them so there is no stealing involved.
The fact is that short sellers help to put a floor under the market because they will want to buy back at sometime to cover. Banning is silly.

Currently I am short Gold,why not it is short term going down.

All that aside, it is safer to simply short stocks by buying Puts where a loss is limited and a profit potentially huge.


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Beginning of the headline :The moment of maximum pain. Goldman Sachs called for the end of the epic short-covering rally that had whipped crude oil, oil & gas drillers, and the broader markets into froth over the past three weeks. As if on cue, the rally started to unwind today. But it was scheduled for demise from get-go. When oil fundamentals are this terrible, they eventually rule. And here is what that rally did: It inflicted maximum pain and destruction on the short sellers that had piled into the trade. Last week wa... Read More
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