Selling a stock short is riskier because our emotions often get us in trouble. It is a natural instinct to become most bearish and want to sell short just when the market is reaching an oversold-bottom. Making it even worse, we know that a stock can in theory go up infinitely. This means there is no limit to how much we could lose if the stock goes up and up. A third problem is that short selling takes patience. Mostly stocks go up or sidewise. Declines tend to be compressed into a relatively short period of time.
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