We do not like them because short-trading promotes unethical behaviour. If you have put yourself at unlimited risk by promising you would buy now-skyrocketing shares by a certain date, you are incentivised to do anything in your power to sabotage the company you are contractually obliged to pay for, but will not own.
We do not like them because short-trading promotes unethical behaviour. If you have put yourself at unlimited risk by promising you would buy now-skyrocketing shares by a certain date, you are incentivised to do anything in your power to sabotage the company you are contractually obliged to pay for, but will not own.