Shorting Selling Stocks Into Their Earnings Report - Should You Do It
Swing Trading the Stock Market
Ryan Mallory
4.7 • 828 Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2019
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Should you be short selling stocks into their earnings report? Let me just tell you that shorting stocks is a risky endeavor, and if you are shorting companies into their earnings reports, you are setting yourself up for massive failure. For one, earnings reports are pretty much unpredictable on a large scale. Shorting into the unknown like that sets you up for a major capital drawdown. So in my latest podcast I go through my reasoning about why it is never a good idea to short a stock into its earnings report.
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| 0:00.0 | Learn to trade stock successfully. |
| 0:09.5 | Learn to profit consistently. |
| 0:11.9 | I'm Ryan Mallory, and on my weekly podcast, I'm going to teach you the ends and outs of a complex, ever-changing stock market. |
| 0:20.6 | You will learn to trade better, trade smarter, |
| 0:24.3 | and profit figure. Now, let's go trade. Hey, everybody. This is Ryan Mallory with the |
| 0:31.1 | Swing Trading Podcast doing an episode on a person that I met just a couple of weeks ago. |
| 0:38.2 | And I've been sitting on this story for a while because, well, first of all, I didn't |
| 0:41.5 | really think about using it in a podcast, but I think it's a pretty relevant story. |
| 0:44.7 | And I wanted to share it with you guys today just so that it might be a valuable experience |
| 0:49.9 | for you guys going forward. |
| 0:51.2 | And so below my offices, there's this bar. |
| 0:54.7 | It's a really, really good place. |
| 0:56.6 | They serve some unbelievable food. |
| 0:58.3 | They've got sit down. |
| 0:59.3 | They have a bar, which is usually where I sit at. |
| 1:02.4 | Because usually I'm working late at night, and I go down there, and I will grab |
| 1:07.6 | something to drink or just make a dinner out of it. |
| 1:10.5 | But in any case, I've gotten a |
| 1:13.0 | lot of the people down there. And it's a good group of people that work there from the bartenders |
| 1:18.5 | to the people who are cooking meals and all. In any case, I met this one guy and he found out |
| 1:25.7 | that I traded stocks and he heard about my company, |
| 1:28.9 | shareplanner.com. |
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