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@abid14385 If more people choosing to long a stock increases the price, and longing and shorting at the same time is equivalent to doing nothing, it stands to reason that more people choosing to short a stock must decrease the price. We're talking about different things, since the immediate...

@abid14385 Pretty sure shorting lowers the price, which increases the company's cost of capital. Besides just issuance of new stock, cost of capital (aka the share price) impacts ability to get loans (for both the company and its big stockholders personally) and the value of any stock...