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[Hypothetical Question] How much could shorts gain if a $4T stock collapsed

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This is entirely hypothetical, but I'm trying to understand the scope of how shorts work when things go "well" for shorts. (Note: I hate options and have no plans to ever short anything, I'm an old-school Buffet-style investor, but I am very curious about shorts.) Let's say some very hot company XYZ has a current mkt cap of $4 trillion. It is a market darling but also has a growing cadre of shorts, some of them big-time hedge funds betting on the worst for the company down the road. Then let's s

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