The Minutes of Stanley Druckenmiller on shorting https://minutesof.com/stanley-druckenmiller/on/shorting/ Everything Stanley Druckenmiller has said on shorting: 2 verbatim quotes from June 2023, each with a timestamp and a link to the recording it came from. en Mon, 31 Aug 2026 13:09:55 +0000 Druckenmiller admits he's not sure he's made money in shorts over forty years despite never having a down year https://minutesof.com/q/78865423-df0a-4733-a342-6a4ee1ef0b21/ https://minutesof.com/q/78865423-df0a-4733-a342-6a4ee1ef0b21/ “If I took back the last forty years, I'm afraid to look. I've never had a down year but I'm not sure I've made money in shorts.” — Bloomberg Live Wed, 07 Jun 2023 15:27:20 +0000 shorting Druckenmiller lost $600 million on a $200 million short position in Internet stocks in three weeks in 1999. https://minutesof.com/q/360e3398-1820-4772-9b19-6613338e6dcb/ https://minutesof.com/q/360e3398-1820-4772-9b19-6613338e6dcb/ “In when I was at Soros, shorted $200,000,000 worth of Internet stocks in March '99 and in three weeks covered them at a $600,000,000 loss. I lost $600,000,000 on a $200,000,000 investment in three weeks.” — Bloomberg Live Wed, 07 Jun 2023 15:27:20 +0000 shorting