Customer Reviews

What Is Short Selling? (What Is the What Is . . . Series)

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This book is full of typographical and grammatical errors, as well as mis-worded and poorly worded sentences - surprisingly poor editing from a mainline publisher (McGraw-Hill); these shortcomings in the editing distract from the effective presentation of the material. The book does provide a good overview of short selling, and some of the associated strategy (basically stock fundamentals research) for determining which stocks to sell short, but I found myself longing for more depth. The presentation would have been more effective with more specific examples with associated charts and sell/buy points. And I think the book should also have gone into more depth about bull/bear market cycles and how these relate to the timing of selling short, and the respective dangers and opportunities offorded by the direction of the overall market.

I loved this book. It was brief and to the point. No fillers or fluff at all. No unwanted stories to unnecessarily increase the number of pages. This is a good introduction to short selling. Very easy read. I found that I could read through the book very fast. The information in the book is relevant to all stock traders and not just short sellers.

I guess I can't blame the author. There really isn't much to short selling a stock. If you want to know what short selling is or how to do it, you'll learn how to do it in 30 min. Buyer beware... please supplement this book with additional information. If you short sell a stock, you are basically saying that the company you're shorting is going to lose value. With enough company, you can take GE to under $6 a share or Citibank to a penny stock. Why bet on a company to fail? Instead, use the info in this book to learn how to beat the short sellers and buy GE at $6 before it doubles in a couple weeks or Citibank quadruples. Be a bull.