Can I short-sell?

Can I short-sell?

The ASX has ruled that ‘naked shorting’ is illegal, but in some cases you can borrow stock to sell. When you buy it back (hopefully lower!) you repay the lender with that stock. Sadly, you can’t do that on Marketech anyway!

 

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