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Bearishly Bullish

The Compound and Friends

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Using Puts Versus Shorting a Stock?

Until recently, for a long time, really till late, you were getting paid to short because you were getting cash back and then you got interest on that cash. Now it's kind of reversing. But the other thing you can do, back when that was happening, you might actually go short a put against your short. Dan: You have to be really f***ing sophisticated to do this well over multiple market cycles. This is not something that most professionals should be doing. Let alone retail. Some of these people that have made money consistently shorting stocks are like elite. Would you say they're like the Navy Seal of Wall Street? No, I have too many friends. They would

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