<story><title>Shorting and Indian capital markets</title><url>https://zerodha.com/z-connect/trending/shorting-and-indian-capital-markets</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ignoramous</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;While everyone is celebrating retail traders winning over a large hedge fund in this case, it rarely ever plays out this way. Most commonly, retail ends up losing money when there is excessive speculation.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is the only passage anyone with too much at stake (than they can afford) in this short needs to read.&lt;p&gt;Other than that, I believe industry insiders &amp;#x2F; traders are missing the mark in that the current dynamic is also fueled in part by a million-strong (if not more?) rejecting the &lt;i&gt;fundamentals&lt;/i&gt; and pumping cash in to businesses that Wall Street&amp;#x27;s hive mind has decided has no job being in existence.&lt;p&gt;AMC made a billion dollars during the rally [0] (and it is not lost on me that this capital would be dumped into parachute payments and bonuses to c-suite and nothing&amp;#x27;s going to trickle-down). In the off-chance AMC makes the capital work, then, that&amp;#x27;d have vindicated retail, but it kind of seems too optimistic but that&amp;#x27;s the whole point.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;movieweb.com&amp;#x2F;amc-theatres-raises-one-billion-dollars-avoids-bankruptcy&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;movieweb.com&amp;#x2F;amc-theatres-raises-one-billion-dollars...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Shorting and Indian capital markets</title><url>https://zerodha.com/z-connect/trending/shorting-and-indian-capital-markets</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mensetmanusman</author><text>I am glad they addressed the philosophical question of whether shorting the stocks should be illegal.&lt;p&gt;I have more confidence in our equities markets because of the existence of short sellers. I’m glad to know there are people researching companies that are not being honest about their financials.&lt;p&gt;If there were another way to incentivize finding these types of companies without short selling, I would be interested.</text></comment>