I've been asked a few times in the comments section why I don't go short some of the stocks I hate such as Amazon, GoPro, and Boston Beer. The truth is I changed brokerage accounts. On my new brokerage account I didn't have a margin account to short stocks. Today was the first day I was allowed to short stocks. Obviously, there is risk of a pop in those three stocks I have just mentioned as they have been down endlessly, so I didn't short them today. Short selling is highly impacted by timing. Today I came close to shorting Shake Shack in the mid-afternoon, but I didn't pull the trigger. The stock went down 3.5% from its high at that time. Netflix was up 3.7% today. It is not my top short idea, but I'm highly negative on it. On top of the 3.7% it was up today, it went up 10% initially in the after hours session. In the past few minutes, it has almost lost half of its gains in the after market as the results settle into the market. As a short seller, I am hoping the stock moves higher tomorrow, so I can enter into a position. The subscription growth in America is stagnating, but it is still impressive because of the level of saturation it has. International growth was also excellent. There are two catalysts to bring the stock lower. The first is that hedge fund managers will start to care about profits again as the stock market falls. The worst stocks to buy into a slowdown are high beta consumer discretionary stocks like Netflix. The second catalyst is the peak in consumer sentiment which will cause Netflix to miss its subscriber growth estimates in America.