Dusseldorf Short sellers lost $570 billion on the US stock market between 2019 and 2021. Their bets on falling prices didn’t work out during the stock market rally. But they recouped much of the loss during last year’s crash: they ended 2022 up $300 billion.
This is the result of an evaluation by the US data provider S3 Partners. What is striking is that short sellers have always beaten the market in recent years. In strong stock market years, their percentage losses were lower than the gains of the market-wide US index S&P 500 and the Russel 3000 small-cap index, while in weak stock market years, their gains were larger than the losses of the S&P 500 and Russell 3000.
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