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Revisiting the Gamestop Mania

The Canadian Investor

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Stock Goes Nuclear Hedge Funds

When you short, you're basically taking a stock and then with the hopes that it'll go lower so you can buy it back. The problem with shorting is that in theory, your losses can be infinite whereas your gains essentially are capped. In this instance, we saw what can happen in terms of losses if there's an almost infinite kind of, the stock goes up.

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