Shorting against your position or 'shorting against the box'...\
Maybe you would share with the board some of your experience and knowledge with that kind of action!
The direct factors involving shorting your positions are - cost and dividend payments off hand. With smaller priced or certain stocks it costs more (although I have never done this)but I do not know how much. Second is dividends. Since you short you are responsible for paying the dividend (although somewhat a wash since you still hold the underlying stock and receive such). On a short term basis it worked very nice for myself. What is tricky about shorting your stock is the tax declaring. I believe if you still have the short open at the end of the year it has to be taken as a profit/loss at the price at the end of the year. Don't hold me for certain about all the aspects of it. At one time I was shorting and closing the position in one day with high volatility....Anyway, one other thing. Since you have to short you will be using margin I believe. I did. It still proved very profitable for me. Hope this help Captain and others.
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