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Here’s how Marc Cohodes, veteran short-seller, and the guy who “brought down” Home Capital, shorts companies:

Marc Cohodes:

“I never, ever, ever get involved in what I would call open-ended situations. . . . I have avoided pie-in-the-sky names. To use an analogy, I’m not interested in climbing into a tree and wrestling the jaguar out of the tree. I’m interested in someone shooting the jaguar out of the tree, and then I will go cut the thing apart once it hits the ground. Instead of open-ended situations, I like to short complete pieces of garbage with fraudulent management and horrifically bad balance sheets. I look for change, I look for ‘if this goes away tomorrow will anyone miss them’?….”

In summary, Marc Cohodes looks for companies that are “frauds, fads, or (impending) failures”, stalks them (Marc calls himself a “stalker”) until they’re weak, and then quickly pounces, initiating a short position; riding the stock down, covering when the time is right, and making money through the process.

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