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minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·6 hours agoYou can short something with $1. It’s just not enough to affect the value itself. You also don’t technically need any money at all, the point of a basic short is to profit off selling borrowed stock after all.
minus-squaredependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·6 hours agoFair point. I, perhaps wrongly, assumed OP wanted to short them out of existence and not just profit from shorting them.
You can short something with $1. It’s just not enough to affect the value itself. You also don’t technically need any money at all, the point of a basic short is to profit off selling borrowed stock after all.
Fair point. I, perhaps wrongly, assumed OP wanted to short them out of existence and not just profit from shorting them.