Short Selling as a Discipline

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The craft of being short: borrow, carry, timing and the asymmetry of the payoff. The short-selling industry itself is covered under business models.

6 books · 2 people behind it

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  1. The Big ShortMichael Lewis, 2010
  2. The Art of Short SellingKathryn F. Staley, 1997
  3. Fooling Some of the People All of the TimeDavid Einhorn, 2008

The people behind it 2

Each person holds a book in this entry or names it in their own tags.

Investors 1

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David Einhorn1 book here

Journalists 1

Michael Lewis1 book here

Books 6

The Big Short
T1 The Big Short
Michael Lewis · 2010 · The subprime shorts; what it costs to be early and right.
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Mohnish PabraiRational Capital Investment FundSheryl SandbergThe Rational Walk
The Art of Short Selling
T2 The Art of Short Selling
Kathryn F. Staley · 1997 · The practitioner's manual: what a short candidate's accounts look like.
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Fooling Some of the People All of the Time
T2 Fooling Some of the People All of the Time
David Einhorn · 2008 · Einhorn's Allied Capital campaign, documented in exhausting detail.
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Bill AckmanPatrick O'Shaughnessy
Sold Short
T3 Sold Short
Manuel P. Asensio, Jack Barth · 2001 · An activist short seller on the mechanics and the retaliation.
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Confidence Game
T3 Confidence Game
Christine S. Richard · 2010 · Ackman against MBIA; six years of being ignored before being proved right.
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Andrew WilkinsonBill Ackman
Dead Companies Walking
T3 Dead Companies Walking
Scott Fearon, Jesse Powell · 2015 · A short seller on the recurring patterns of managerial self-delusion.
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