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Crossroads Capital Letter: Shorts and Ladders – How We Think About Short Selling

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Crossroads Capital on Short Selling
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Crossroads Capital's letter to partners for the month of October 2024, discussing what we think about short selling.

Ask any fund manager: Shorting is hard. Many elements make it hard to generate a positive return on shorts.  After all, in the long run most stocks go up. Even worse, when your shorts move against you, they become larger as a percent of NAV, not smaller – compounding the pain of your mistakes. So why do it? And how do we at Crossroads avoid the common pitfalls? Below is a quick primer on our approach, and an example that...

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