Quote Originally Posted by daved150 View Post
i'm not up to speed on "shorting". how do you proffit by buying an over priced stock? i guess i'm asking how to short a stock....
You sell short by selling the stock that you don't own (stay with me) and then purchase it back at a later date. Hopefully it is at a much lower price.
So to short BBY you would sell lets say 100 shares now at $30 and if it drops to $20 you would "cover" buy back or replace the 100 shares and you sold previously and you would make $10 per share or $1,000.