What Is Short Selling?
by Mike Winters on Two Cents, shared by Mike Winters from Lifehacker on (#5B239)
Short selling a stock is akin to placing a simple bet that a company's stock price will go down, and as such it's often demonized as profiting off of failure. However, academics and investors believe that short selling improves market efficiency by making it easier to trade stocks and by ensuring that a company's...