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You don’t always have to borrow from exchanges or brokers to short.
Futures. You can just short it without “borrowing” but the profit and losses are real time added or deducted from your account per every tick up or down. Don’t think of the example above it gets confusing cuz the natural question comes up of how are you borrowing it? All u gotta imagine is you’re betting up or betting down and you make the difference in the direction of the bet.
If you wanna buy. You buy low sell high. Once a buy and sell are matched. You make the diff.
If you wanna short. You sell high and buy low. Same shit but backwards. Once the sell and buy are matched. You make the difference.
You can buy or sell first. You just need to sell or buy again to flatten your position and realize the profit or loss.
I assume options on these futures will come out eventually too. Which allows you to bet both ways too.
Now I highly doubt anyone on this forum has the money or stomach to short the futures as one contract has an initial margin of 50k usd small contract and 250k usd for the big contract.
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