Normally you should be able to buy back from the market even if it means you will lose a lot of money. Unless that's really out of your control such as stock get delisted or suspended indefinitely.

And if someone becomes bankrupt due to unable to buy back the shares, then the lender of the shares will also kena because they can only liquidate the short seller assets to get back whatever they can according to laws, might end up losing money as well.

That's why the lenders for short selling also have risks.

it is short seller obligation to return the borrowed shares. if they can't afford to, the creditors can force them to go bankrupt.

your epf money could be the casualty, or myr value goes to shit. when huge economic upheaval occurs, no one can be sure where and when it will stop. a lot of people seems to be happy about small guys winning against big guys, but the chain reactions might go around and hit them from the back later.

but i don't believe a few hedge funds go belly up due to a few stocks is enough to cause this. so popcorn jer lah.

can't win against the 1%. financial market melt down only affect money in liquid form, not actual production capacity. the 1% has control over many things losing one aspect of it won't bring down the rest. who are the bosses of all those mines, farmlands, factories, harbors etc etc? they will retain control of them all. i always feel it is naive to think that causing some disruption will bring down the 1%.

It is like saying someone feels happy that they deposit 10000 into their bank account and then later find out he can only get back 5000 from the account later, and not just him, every other persons too. The assumption is the "helang" will then force to sell their valuables that still actually worth value. That actually might not happen. What really happens is those people all lose 50% in their bank accounts, helang and normal people all same. Look at 08 subprime crisis, sure some helang did collapsed, but how many more normal peasants lost their savings?

the system is set up in such a way that they are pretty secure no matter what. financial crisises have already happened many times in the past, did the rich still getting richer? still same at the end, maybe some name changes only.

Just wait and see whether the peasants actually will get something good at the end lor. See whether the rich gets richer, or actually gets poorer.

lor, I am the peasant. I am just more realistic about the real world.

I see people happily go buy derivatives like call put warrants, and hope that will make them rich, while it is actually hedging which make such things possible in the first place. they don't see it as exploit then.

but for some reasons, they consider this to be exploits:

A hedge fund is an investment fund that trades in relatively liquid assets and is able to make extensive use of more complex trading, portfolio-construction and risk management techniques to improve performance, such as short selling, leverage, and derivatives.[1] Financial regulators generally restrict hedge fund marketing except to institutional investors, high net worth individuals and others who are considered sufficiently sophisticated.

Hedge funds are regarded as alternative investments. Their ability to make more extensive use of leverage and more complex investment techniques distinguishes them from regulated investment funds available to the retail market, such as mutual funds and ETFs. They are also considered distinct from private-equity funds and other similar closed-end funds, as hedge funds generally invest in relatively liquid assets and are generally open-ended, meaning that they allow investors to invest and withdraw capital periodically based on the fund's net asset value, whereas private-equity funds generally invest in illiquid assets and only return capital after a number of years.[2][3] However, other than a fund's regulatory status there are no formal or fixed definitions of fund types, and so there are different views of what can constitute a "hedge fund".

Although hedge funds are not subject to many restrictions that apply to regulated funds, regulations were passed in the United States and Europe following the financial crisis of 2007–2008 with the intention of increasing government oversight of hedge funds and eliminating certain regulatory gaps.[4]

Although most modern hedge funds are able to employ a wide variety of financial instruments and risk management techniques,[5] they can be very different from each other with respect to their strategies, risks, volatility and expected return profile. It is common for hedge fund investment strategies to aim to achieve a positive return on investment regardless of whether markets are rising or falling ("absolute return"). Although hedge funds can be considered risky investments, the expected returns of some hedge fund strategies are less volatile than those of retail funds with high exposure to stock markets, because of the use of hedging techniques.

isn't that just what i said?

lol still don't believe I am a peasant? this has nothing to do with me, I am just pointing out the unrealistic expectations in this euphoria moment expected by many people. who win who lose, i don't care. as long as no whole world economic melt down that end up even affecting me peasant.