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  <title id="t">Short selling bets that a price will fall</title>
  <desc id="d">A trader borrows shares, sells them now, then aims to buy them back cheaper and return them, pocketing the difference. If the price rises instead, losses can be unlimited, which is what makes short squeezes so violent.</desc>
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  <text x="44" y="60" font-size="25" font-weight="800" fill="#0F172A">Short Selling Bets a Price Will Fall</text>
  <text x="44" y="92" font-size="14.5" fill="#5A6578">Sell high now, buy back cheaper later, and keep the difference</text>
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  <text x="318.8" y="152" font-size="14" font-weight="800" fill="#0F172A" text-anchor="middle">Sell now</text>
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  <text x="683.8" y="152" font-size="14" font-weight="800" fill="#0F172A" text-anchor="middle">Return shares</text>
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  <text x="410" y="233" font-size="13.5" fill="#334155" text-anchor="middle">A bet that a price will fall. Losses are unlimited if it rises instead.</text>
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  <text x="44" y="281" font-size="12.5" fill="#5A6578">Source: <tspan font-weight="700" fill="#0F172A">CFGI</tspan></text>
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