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1474216

Anonymous Tue Aug 30 19:15:50 2016 No.1474216 [Reply] [Original]

What if you short a stock and the value goes to 0? Do you get infinite money?

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 30 19:18:28 2016 No.1474220 you need to rethink what you just said, anon

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 30 19:27:38 2016 No.1474229 >>1474216 You just don't have to pay back your shares (since they're now worthless) so you get to keep all your money you made from selling the borrowed stock

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 30 19:27:57 2016 No.1474231 >>1474216 you double your money the difference is 100%....100% gain

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 30 20:00:10 2016 No.1474272 you actually lose all of your money

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 31 10:03:38 2016 No.1475482 what if shares's go negative, what then? to infinity and beyond. really makes you think

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 31 10:05:31 2016 No.1475486 >>1475482 I knew this guy who made a sweet profit on Enron. He bought when they went bankrupt, and then sold when the stock was at -$80.