[Moose Burger]

"Definition: An investment technique in which an investor sells shares short before actually borrowing the shares or before determining if shares can be borrowed." investor words.

In other words, selling something they don't have. Short selling by itself is shady, this is beyond the pale.

[xone]

Short selling by itself is shady

What a load of BS. There is nothing 'shady' about shorting stock that you control.

[farlander]

Short selling is not shady. It’s a perfectly valid AND needed tool in the financial markets. You have to have people who bet the stocks can go down in the markets otherwise you don’t have an efficient market for a security.

Naked short selling is an abuse of the power brokers have to serve their customers.

[Osage Orange]

Your definition is plain wrong. As is your understanding.