Quotes About Shorting

Shorting saved my butt in 2008... Shorting kept me in the game. It generates cash when the market's crashing. And that's what you want when the market's crashing - cash.

When someone shorts a stock, that literally means they are selling something they do not own.

The moment the investor bought the shares at $40 and returned the 100 shares to the original investor, the shorting investor is said to have "covered their short position.

using a short is pretty safe in a down-trending market, and much more risky in an up-trending or sideways-moving market.

People are always selling the idea that they have a magic bullet of persuasion. You won't get poor by shorting such promises.

Hedge funds built their strategies on short selling, but governments imposed clumsy restrictions on shorting amid the post-Lehman panic.

Whatever that guy is buying, I want to short it.

The key thing when you short is to make sure you're not wrong on the fundamental intrinsic value.

The trend of the market is up, not down. Shorting stocks puts you against that trend and thus makes it more difficult to make money.

If a stock is high enough to be sold, it is high enough to be sold short," was another Sage maxim.

We had a field day before anyone knew anything about shorting. It was almost a license to steal. Nowadays, it's a license to get hosed.

Short sellers sell stock they have borrowed, hoping to buy it back later when its price has fallen.

I'm shorting two stocks in the U.K., but I've got a screen of about 50, and I might short all 50 if I think Jeremy Corbyn is going to be prime minister.

I have what I call my Evel Knievel screen. These are companies that are trying to jump the Grand Canyon and probably won't make it. There are only two conditions for the screen. First, the company is trading at more than five times book value. Second, the company is losing money. My job is to figure out which stocks won't make it across the Grand Canyon and then go short those stocks.