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carbocation on May 1, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Groupon Plunges as Board Members Reportedly Leavin...

It's always been virtually impossible to borrow the stock in order to short it; the float is small and the cost of borrow is extremely high.

sidman on May 1, 2012 [–]

Yeh, i was looking/playing the puts and it was traded very thinly as well, took ages to get bites so didn't try again after i did it once.

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