When you make money betting a stock can go down instead of up what is this particular act called?

Question

When you make money betting a stock can go down instead of up what is this particular act called?

Answer 1

What the SEC is making it hard to do right now on Financial stocks. Short selling.

Gotta love senseless intervention and manipulation. Land of the free!

I am not bitter at all.

Answer 2

Shorting the stock. It usually costs a small fee, and is covered over a period of time.

Say ABC stock is $30 a share then all of a sudden ABC losts a quarter of their profits in a quarter. I this situation shorting is good.

Answer 3

Short selling

or

buying Put options

both will make you money when a stock falls.

Answer 4

Short selling.