Short_selling

Short selling, a common financial market concept, involves an Intermediary selling Assets to the Market, having borrowed these Assets from a (generally implicit) Lender. The Intermediary is obligated to rebuy the Assets later, so that they may be returned to the Lender. The Intermediary's intent is to repurchase the Assets from the Market at a lower price than when he sold them, and so return them to the Lender for a profit. Because this strategy only makes sense when the Intermediary believes that the value of the Assets is lower than the valuation assigned by other members of the market, words of this frame may be used metaphorically to refer to an Agent (usually wrongly) believing some Entity is worth less than other people do. He was selling short shares from his brother's company on the NASDAQ and he made a fortune.