Comments on: Investing Book Review: The Art of Short Selling

By: Consider the Quality of Earnings When Buying or Selling | Yes and Not Yes

Consider the Quality of Earnings When Buying or Selling | Yes and Not Yes — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 20:42:46 +0000

[...] another book recently called The Art of Shortselling. I purchased it after reading a review on Old School Value. The book was published in 1997, so some of the examples in it might not be very familiar to [...]

By: KC

KC — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:10:08 +0000

As he mentioned I think the value is probably more in the analysis this book goes into rather than just the idea of shorting stocks. If you can find what makes stocks attractive to short sellers you may find more information that could eliminate a stock as a possible long position and hence a long term loss. But yeah shorting is risky I agree. When the market is like this with so many values I don’t really know why a value oriented person would short. However when things start to bubble up and you start running out of investment ideas then it might be worth looking into.

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By: Jae Jun

Jae Jun — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:19:30 +0000

Thats the accepted principle and shorting is truly dangerous for those that short purely based on valuation or technicals but considering that the ratio of bad companies to good companies is greater, there would be more opportunity right? A company falls so much quicker than it goes up.

AeroGrow would have been a great short if I had known about it earlier, but I went long and lost more.

By: Alexg

Alexg — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:55:26 +0000

Considering you can make 100% on a short and lose infinity is it even wize to short?

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