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Note that if you'd bought the put option mentioned in the article you would have made a 4x return in 6 months. No borrowing needed.



But you wouldn't use the same amount of capital on an options trade. For example, if you're bankroll is $25,000, you might use it all to short the stock but it would be foolish to use it all to buy a put. It's more likely that you'd use a much smaller fraction of your stock purchasing unit size for options trading since the risk of losing 100% is higher.




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