Matt Levine, Columnist

How Long Do You Have to Be Short?

Andrew Left, hedge fund hiring, white knights, CBDCs and Enron 2.0.

Here’s a thing you can do:

I mean, maybe you can’t do that. You need a reputation, and some social media following and/or the ability to get on television, to pull this off. If you don’t have that, maybe you can bootstrap it. Go on X, tweet “this stock looks good and here’s why,” back it up with some good analysis and compelling detail, and maybe the stock goes up. (Not because people read your posts, but because you’re right.) Do it again next week. Keep doing it. Maybe someone will discover your X account and say “hey this person is good at picking stocks,” and it snowballs from there. Eventually you can move stocks with a tweet, because your tweets have a track record of being correct, and you have built up a following.