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Though I am not positive, I am pretty sure that 20 years ago the answer was stock trader. That probably doesn't hold true today because of the crash though. People are still making a lot of money by shorting stock though. Shorting stock is when somebody loans you stock and then you sell it. This is legal. Then after the agreed time of the loan, you must buy back the stock and give it back to the original owner. Any time the stock goes down the person shorting makes money.

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15y ago

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