RE:RE:Shorting Stocks You obviously don't know how large institutional investors invest. They very often will hedge the stocks they bought by selling some as a hedge. If the stock dumps down they are somewhat protected by making money on the stock decline to offset their long position. And if the stock takes off they can convert the warrants and loss a little on the short position but make huge gains on the stock price increase. It is a very common procedure done by institutional investors. And if it gets going up they cover their short positions which makes the stock price explode up even faster and more. If you haven't noticed the majority of the sellers are anonymous. That is a big indicator that the institutional investors are positioning themselves.