Dubai, United Arab Emirates — October 14, 2026
Guy Gentile — trader, author, and founder of the direct-access trading platform DAS Trader and the brokerages SpeedTrader and SureTrader — today announced the release of The Short Seller: Borrow, Dilution, Squeezes, and the Trades Wall Street Doesn't Teach, now available on Amazon in hardcover, paperback, and Kindle.
Most trading books teach readers how to buy. The Short Seller is about the other side of the trade — and about why so many people who are right about a stock still lose money shorting it. Across 20 chapters and 261 pages, Gentile explains how borrow and locate actually work, what it costs to stay short, how dilution reaches the tape through convertible notes, equity lines, and warrant resets, and how to find the financing footprint inside SEC filings before it shows up in the price.
The book is written from the broker's side of the wire. Gentile spent more than two decades building trading platforms and brokerages, where he saw how locates are sourced, how recalls and buy-ins happen, and how margin desks close out oversized positions. The result is positioned as an insider's guide to the mechanics and dangers of short selling, not a promise of profits.
Documented market events anchor the risk chapters: the Volkswagen short squeeze of October 2008 and the GameStop squeeze of January 2021, each told from the public record with numbered endnotes. Throughout, the book returns to one theme: being right isn't enough — a short seller has to survive long enough to get paid.
"Everyone knows how to buy a stock. Almost nobody knows how to sell one they don't own. I wrote this book because I watched smart traders get the company right and the trade wrong — too big, too early, with no plan for the squeeze. The mechanics are learnable. The discipline is the hard part."
What the Book Covers
- Borrow and locate — how shares are found, priced, recalled, and bought in.
- Dilution and toxic financing — reading 8-Ks, S-1s, S-3s, and 424B prospectuses for convertible notes, equity lines, and repeat financiers.
- Short interest and positioning — what the data does and doesn't say.
- Squeezes — the anatomy of a squeeze, with Volkswagen 2008 and GameStop 2021 as case files.
- Risk — position sizing, loss limits, never adding to a loser, and a daily stop.
Book Details
- Title — The Short Seller
- Subtitle — Borrow, Dilution, Squeezes, and the Trades Wall Street Doesn't Teach
- Category — Business & Money · Investing · Trading
- Format — Hardcover, Paperback (6 × 9), and Kindle · 261 pages
- ISBN — 9798162319559
- Publisher — Independently published
- Status — Available now on Amazon
About Guy Gentile
Guy Gentile is a trader, macro strategist, and author based in Dubai. He founded the direct-access trading platform DAS Trader and later SpeedTrader and SureTrader. He is the author of nine books, including The Short Seller, TOKENIZED, Liquidity Event, and The Stock Operator, and publishes The Regime Desk, a free research-only brief on macro, liquidity, and event-driven markets, at GuyGentile.com.
The Short Seller is for education only — not investment, legal, or tax advice, and not a recommendation to buy or sell any security. Short selling carries the risk of losses greater than the amount invested.
Media Contact
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