HSX Forum

Playing & Trading Strategy

what you receive for a shorted stock completely depends on where you shorted it

Posted by: ndmaster (a.k.a JonHH) on Apr 04, 06:44 in response to winstonman78's post I'm sure there is a thread on this somewhere....

using your example, if you shorted it at $45 and it delists at $40, you would have made $5 per share. so, 45 x 50,000 = $2,250,000. at delist, that would be worth $2,500,000 (not including commissions on this example).

if you had shorted it at $35, at delist, it would be worth $2,000,000. basically, if you are right and your short's price goes down, the value of your account goes up. at delist, it is the difference between where you shorted it and delist times the number of shares.

note that if you short a low priced stock and it goes up more than 2 times, when you sell or it is delisted, HSX will take money OUT of your account. make sense?





Post a Reply

To post to the forums you must first login!


Miss Piggy (MSPIG) 149999 23.73 (+0.46)          Shrek 5 (SHRK5) 149999 260.07 (+1.00)          Gold Mountain (OGMTN) 30000 14.95 (0.00)          Shrek 5 (SHRK5) 149999 260.07 (+1.00)          The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the (HGAM6) 149999 210.99 (+1.03)          The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the (HGAM6) 149999 210.99 (+1.03)          Alien sequel (ALIE6) 20000 58.84 (-0.07)          Evil Dead Wrath (EVLD7) 149999 34.65 (+1.84)          Artificial (AIFIC) 12 21.69 (0.00)          A Head Full of Ghosts (AHFOG) 150000 4.23 (-0.02)          Black Panther III (BPNT3) 1 290.16 (+0.01)          Alone at Dawn aka Combat Control (ADAWN) 40000 29.31 (+0.06)          Game of Thrones: Aegon’s Conqu (GOTAC) 1 140.01 (+0.25)          Paradise Lost (PLOST) 20000 19.29 (-0.02)          The Great Beyond aka Ghostwriter (ACRNS) 21050 86.37 (-0.09)          Evil Dead Wrath (EVLD7) 29999 34.65 (+1.84)          Narnia: The Magician's Neph (NARN4) 149999 41.57 (-0.19)          Hexed (HEXED) 150000 100.64 (-1.05)          Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (A50FW) 12000 33.31 (+0.09)          Byung-hun Lee (BHLEE) 2000 84.12 (+0.25)          Byung-hun Lee (BHLEE) 6 84.12 (+0.25)          Magic: The Gathering (MGCTG) 3761 37.62 (+0.28)          Hexed (HEXED) 150000 100.64 (-1.05)          Focker In-Law (MPRN4) 150000 112.13 (-0.73)          Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (A50FW) 25000 33.31 (+0.09)          Shrek 5 (SHRK5) 149999 260.07 (+1.00)          Five Nights at Freddy's 3 (5NAF3) 200 69.49 (+0.05)          Shrek 5 (SHRK5) 149999 260.07 (+1.00)          24 Jump Street (21JS3) 4000 90.55 (+0.17)          How to Train Your Dragon 2 (HTTY2) 149999 206.68 (+0.83)          One of Them Days 2 (1OTD2) 40000 11.78 (-0.01)          Donkey Kong aka Untitled Nintend (DKONG) 150000 128.20 (+1.12)          Miss Piggy (MSPIG) 149999 23.73 (+0.46)          Magic: The Gathering (MGCTG) 149999 37.62 (+0.28)          The Hole (THHOL) 3 7.28 (+0.89)          Ghost Soldier - Opening Weekend (ARCNG.OW) 100000 5.40 (-0.04)          The Hole (THHOL) 3 7.28 (+0.89)          Magic: The Gathering (MGCTG) 128000 37.62 (+0.28)          Evil Dead Wrath (EVLD7) 149999 34.65 (+1.84)          Evil Dead Wrath (EVLD7) 149999 34.65 (+1.84)          Godzilla Minus Zero (GODM2) 150000 81.24 (-0.82)          Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mu (TMNT4) 3 69.43 (+0.55)          Wonder Woman (WOND3) 149999 31.82 (+0.19)          Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mu (TMNT4) 3 69.43 (+0.55)          Godzilla Minus Zero (GODM2) 150000 81.24 (-0.82)          Wonder Woman (WOND3) 149999 31.82 (+0.19)          Drummer Boy (DRUMB) 150000 19.90 (-0.73)          The Further Mis-Adventures of Cl (TAOCB) 316 14.15 (+0.11)          Drummer Boy (DRUMB) 150000 19.90 (-0.73)          The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the (HGAM6) 149999 210.99 (+1.03)