If you’ve been trading penny stocks, or wanting to learn how to trade penny stocks, the term “shorts” is something thrown around on a routine basis. Penny stock shorters get blamed so much the common sense of it all, given the literal rules, has fallen to the waste side. If you are trading stocks trading for $.10 or lower, especially sub-penny stocks, then don’t allow people to scam you over by misleading you. Let me explain why none of this makes sense when you look at the numbers.