<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>Actually that is very &amp;quot;easy&amp;quot; to do, first you short sell some stock (naked short) for $1M, then the stocks value goes up by $8M. You are asked to cover your short and even after your $1M you are still left holding $7M in liabilities.</text><parent_chain><item><author>amateur_soclgst</author><text>I found it funnier how they tried to short sell $1M of stock and somehow got $7M in the hole. Must have been some leverage on that deal :v</text></item><item><author>the_hangman</author><text>&amp;gt; On or about December 2, 2010, Investor 1 [...] asked SHKRELI in an email
about, inter alia, the fund&amp;#x27;s assets under management and the names of its independent auditor and fund administrator. SHKRELI told Investor 1 that MSMB Capital had $35 million in assets under management and that the fund&amp;#x27;s independent auditor and administrator were Rothstein, Kass &amp;amp; Company, P.C. and NAV Consulting Inc., respectively. At the time of this representation, MSMB Capital did not have an independent auditor or administrator, and SHKRELI had lost through trading the approximately $700,000 that had been invested by the four Capital Limited Partners. &lt;i&gt;In fact, as of November 30, 2010, the value of assets in MSMB Capital&amp;#x27;s bank and brokerage accounts totaled approximately $700.&lt;/i&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Martin Shkreli indictment [pdf]</title><url>http://www.bloomberglaw.com/public/desktop/document/USA_v_Shkreli_et_al_Docket_No_115cr00637_EDNY_Dec_14_2015_Court_D/1?1450368872</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>prdonahue</author><text>Umm, you know how short sales work right? You&amp;#x27;re borrowing shares to sell them at current prices and then have to return the &lt;i&gt;shares&lt;/i&gt; later. If the price rises, you are out the difference between what you sold at and what you repurchase at for when the call to cover comes in.</text><parent_chain><item><author>amateur_soclgst</author><text>I found it funnier how they tried to short sell $1M of stock and somehow got $7M in the hole. Must have been some leverage on that deal :v</text></item><item><author>the_hangman</author><text>&amp;gt; On or about December 2, 2010, Investor 1 [...] asked SHKRELI in an email
about, inter alia, the fund&amp;#x27;s assets under management and the names of its independent auditor and fund administrator. SHKRELI told Investor 1 that MSMB Capital had $35 million in assets under management and that the fund&amp;#x27;s independent auditor and administrator were Rothstein, Kass &amp;amp; Company, P.C. and NAV Consulting Inc., respectively. At the time of this representation, MSMB Capital did not have an independent auditor or administrator, and SHKRELI had lost through trading the approximately $700,000 that had been invested by the four Capital Limited Partners. &lt;i&gt;In fact, as of November 30, 2010, the value of assets in MSMB Capital&amp;#x27;s bank and brokerage accounts totaled approximately $700.&lt;/i&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Martin Shkreli indictment [pdf]</title><url>http://www.bloomberglaw.com/public/desktop/document/USA_v_Shkreli_et_al_Docket_No_115cr00637_EDNY_Dec_14_2015_Court_D/1?1450368872</url></story>