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Betting on Drops: Risks of Shorting Assets with Leverage

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 In trading, short positions involve betting that an asset's price will fall. Traders borrow shares or contracts, sell them at the current price, and aim to buy them back cheaper later to pocket the difference. Leverage amplifies this, letting them control large positions with minimal upfront cash known as margin, which acts like a security deposit to cover potential losses.

Margin calls strike when markets move against these shorts. If prices rise instead of dropping, losses mount fast due to leverage—sometimes as high as 50-to-1. Exchanges demand more cash to maintain the position; fail to deliver, and brokers liquidate holdings automatically. This forces shorts to buy back at higher prices, piling on selling pressure elsewhere but buying here, which can spike prices further in a chain reaction. In silver futures recently, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange hiked margin requirements amid violent rallies, triggering widespread calls and a sharp price drop as overloaded traders dumped positions.

Shorts in trouble face liquidity sweeps too, where price briefly breaks key levels like order blocks or resistance, hitting stop losses above. These stops on shorts are buy orders, flooding the market with buys that savvy players sell into, then price reverses down. A buyside sweep, for instance, fakes a breakout to new highs, clears short stops and liquidations, then plunges back, confirming bearish control. Tools like fair value gaps—price imbalances from rapid moves—often form nearby, signaling entries for counter-trades with stops beyond the gap.

Novice shorts crumble fastest on thin margins, as routine swings exhaust bare-bones accounts before they react. High leverage turns small rises into equity wipes, breeding panic sells. Pros size by risk—say, 0.5% per trade—and track volatility to dodge calls, but crowded shorts still unravel in squeezes, like metals' 2025 firestorm.

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