Cherry picking dates can make any company look like an excellent short.

Okay. If you shorted it 24 months ago you are still ahead.

Now do the math with 48 months

Or 6

It is almost as if stock prices fluctuate over time. Who'd have thought...

This kind of info nugget is useful only for time travelers who can take advantage of it.

Made ~$10,000 from that bet last year. I was pretty pleased with myself.

Good work; you successfully managed to time the market. I'm sure there were many, many others who didn't make out so well.

Now redo the calculation a bunch of times to account for all the other possible times you could have both opened and closed that short position, and see how many other times you would have turned a profit. Probably not in many of them.

You got lucky. Contrary to some popular belief, lucky timing is not a generally-applicable investing strategy.

Totally agreed

Would you have made more if you were still holding that short position today?