Short Selling Explained

If you say in Inkling that the chances/value/date were lower/earlier than whatever the current stock price was at the time, you've made what professional traders call a "short sell."

• Selling short means you think the answer is not going to happen.
• The more shares you sell short, the stronger you feel the answer will not happen.
• If the answer doesn't happen, you will make money. If the answer does happen, you will lose money.