I'm glad you acknowledge it but in reference to your quote below, so a market makers ability to short is abnegated because they create a market? Shorting is shorting no matter how you slice it, right? I'm not sure how this is misleading.
"As part of the MM process, they technically short stocks daily. But that is misleading if one does not understand the concept. Market makers make their money between the bid/ask."
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