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Shorting a put or a call has limited upside (it can only max out by delisting at 0) but unlimited downside (if you're wrong and it delists

Posted by: Paul2k on Jul 12, 14:00 in response to steveg1's post Shorting Puts vs. Buying Calls

above the price you shorted, which could be 10 or 20 or 100 or infinite. Buying the call or short (playing the opposite hand) is betting on a similar result, but the upside/downsides are reversed...upside is infinite, downside hits a wall at a zero delist.





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