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How to short a stock? Specific operations.

Margin financing and securities lending came out.

Financing means borrowing money to buy stocks and paying back the money when the time comes.

Security lending means borrowing stocks and selling them for money, then repaying the stocks when the time comes.

Today, short selling means borrowing stocks from a brokerage firm and selling them. If the stock falls, you buy the same amount of stocks at a lower price and return it to the brokerage firm, then you will make money. That is, sell high → buy low