An Initial Caveat This column is inopportunely written. Inopportunely for you, the reader, that is. The cardinal rule of investment advice is that counsel sounds its wisest when it’s at its stupidest.

For traders looking to profit from a declining market, shorting exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and investing in inverse ETFs are two popular strategies. While both approaches aim to capitalize on ...

‘Big Short’ investor Steve Eisman has said “there’s no fundamental case to be massively short” in the current stock market and said it would be “insanity” to start shorting stocks like Nvidia. Eisman, ...

Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bear 3X Shares ETF is a poor long-term investment due to its inverse nature and volatility drag. Shorting SOXS can yield market-beating returns, but requires careful risk ...

Shorting stocks has historically been a losing strategy, but current conditions resemble those that occurred at the 2000 bubble peak and gave rise to 125% gains for short sellers. With cash now ...

Short selling, also known as shorting or going short, is a trading method in which assets are borrowed and subsequently sold in order to profit from the stock’s decline in price. Investors borrow ...

MSTR has been on a general downtrend since November 20, 2024. Has it been profitable to short? MicroStrategy, now known as Strategy, has been buying bitcoin for years. It reached its highest closing ...

Andrew Left just placed a fresh bet against GameStop shares amid its latest rally. The famed short seller lost big after he bet against the retailer in 2021. Interest in the meme stock has been ...