The recent media coverage of the shenanigans around GameStop show just how little the media understand anything about trading including shorting a stock. Shorting comes in two varieties of liquidity provider and liquidity taker. Going naked short is a liquidity taker and few practitioners are equipped to take such a bet. There are many ways players can improve their odds of winning, and few are legal.
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