RE:3 Pot Stocks That Could Make You a Millionaire These articles about making a million dollars fall Short of providing examples. For example buying one million shares in ANY company then seeing the shares increase by $1 gives you 1 million in profit.
If you are targeting a dollar amount for a profit make sure you know what the SP needs to be for you to achieve the target $$$ amount then be prepared to exit when it hits.
I realize short position trades use much higher share counts than longs and considering there is no theoretical top to shareprices the million dollar change is much more possible, but that possibility goes along with the risk associated with the trade