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@mattly @inthehands just for us less sophisticated readers, the reason shorting leads to unbounded risk is that...

I borrow X shares of stock with an agreement to return them at some specific future time. I then sell them at the current price. Then I wait for the price to go down. When I think it's bottomed out I buy them at the new price. If they only go up, I'm forced to pay an arbitrarily high price to return the shares at the end of the loan period?

Do I have that right?