That will ensure *fewer* buyers on the way down, intensifying the crash.
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I disagree. You have more people buying not selling. That’s the whole point. You stop people betting on it dropping. You’re assuming that everybody still wants to sell. That is not the case. The people betting on a selling are the ones purposely trying to crash the market and they’ve already driven it to what it was worth before President Trump was elected. That was certainly one of their goals to claim that he is doing things the wrong way.
I disagree. You have more people buying not selling.
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All transactions in the market are balanced. You can’t have more buyers then sellers. You only have the agreed price of the transaction.
Shot selling inverts the process allowing one to sell first with a promise to buy back, hopefully at a lower price. The short seller provides market liquidity to smooth the fall in a stocks price in a down market.