How do you short FB and twitter?
I know how to short some EFTs like S&P, small caps and few others. I have a first trade account
same way as with an EFT. But when I say short here I don’t mean selling the stock directly as an official Short (which is where you sell a stock you don’t own at full price and hold it until you decide to close the position by buying it at the current price).
What I mean is buying a PUT option which is the right to sell it at a given price on a 100 share contract on a given date. Then if it moves in the direction I expect - down - I sell the option contract before the expiration date... which is why I tend to work with long term dates instead of short terms so I have additional time if things don’t go my way.