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How to Short a Stock to Make a Quick Buck
The short positioning on PacWest. So if you're, I mean, if you think a share price is going to go down, then you can short that stock. It's a classic hedge fund strategy this. To do it, you've got to borrow the shares from a sell side service provider like an investment bank. You borrow the PacWest shares, you then sell them. And then if you're right and the share prices go down, you can then buy back the shares at a cheaper price and then give them back to the lender,. And so you profit from that drop in price. Okay. If you get into that vortex, there's no way back.
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