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Is that different than shorting a broad range of stocks?



Yes in the sense that for a bet like streaking the chance that you can affect the outcome is 100%.

The chance that you can short a "broad range of stocks" and affect their share price is alot less certain. Especially in liquid markets your chance of affecting a blue chips stock price is very small.

There are always a few cases, like Archageos, where you can get so big that you move the stock but those cases are so well known exactly because they are so rare.


That’s a good question - perhaps it’s not different.




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