Short Selling explained for dummies | Invest My Buck.
The big short is probably one of the most popular films on the topic of investing.
It's a star-studded movie that follows the real story of three groups of people who short or bet against the housing market for billions of dollars, right before the 2008 real estate crisis.
As you might expect, our heroes ended up making quite a bit of money, but how exactly does a short work well in the movie, the positions are taken through what are known as swaps, a derivative agreement that is taken with the.