Tech: The Perils of Short Selling
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2017
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Apparently Snap's IPO has a lot of people thinking about shorting stocks -- we answer a listener question and get into the nitty gritty risks of deciding to go short.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day. |
| 0:07.0 | Friday, March 10th, and we're talking to tech and the perils of shorting of stock. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm your host, Dylan Lewis Lewis and I'm joined in the studio |
| 0:13.6 | by Motley Pool premium analyst Jason Moser. Jason how's it going all right how about |
| 0:17.8 | you working on getting over a cold yeah you and me both yeah we're gonna try to make |
| 0:22.4 | you through this episode without hacking. |
| 0:24.1 | I picked the perfect person to be on. |
| 0:26.1 | We are going to have to, I mean this is going to take a double effort here. |
| 0:29.6 | You have a little mug of tea right now. |
| 0:30.8 | I do, you know, this is, this is this is I'm figuring this helps yeah I thought |
| 0:34.5 | it would be coffee but I think coffee actually dehydrates you a little bit |
| 0:38.7 | oddly enough it's like mostly water but apparently it's not like good for you. |
| 0:43.0 | He is a much better option. |
| 0:44.4 | Yeah, that's what I'm understanding and it's so far it's working so let's hope it'll last. |
| 0:48.8 | Yeah, so listeners please excuse any huge coughing fits or anything like that. |
| 0:52.3 | I have a 32 ounce bottle of |
| 0:53.5 | water next to me as we do this show we're gonna try to make it through though. |
| 0:56.4 | But after our episode last week, Snap the morning after we talked about the market |
| 1:02.2 | reaction to Snap's IPO. We got an |
| 1:04.4 | email from one of our listeners, this guy Chris, and he'd asked, Dylan said that the |
| 1:08.3 | risks of shorting could be catastrophic. How and why can shorting have more |
| 1:12.3 | potential for catastrophic loss than buying into a |
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