More generally, it’s not that easy making money from shorts. According to S3 Partners, a specialist New York-based consultancy that tracks short positions, short selling generated aggregate gains of $300 billion last year as stock markets fell. But that simply offsets some of the $572 billions of losses suffered over the previous three years.   

Watch out for these large-cap stocks in Tuesday’s trading session!

Watch out for these large-cap stocks in Monday’s trading session!

 The Sensex slipped by 773.69 points to close at 60,205.06, while the Nifty 50 fell by 226.35 points to close at 17,891.95

 As a result, Asia Pacific markets also plunged sharply with Japan’s Nikkei losing 1.22 per cent whereas China’s Shanghai Composite trading flat at 3,274.22, lower by 0.12 per cent.