How to get a net short position when a shorting ban is in place

This is one for the derivative geeks, I’m wondering whether there are any novel ways that I haven’t heard about to obtain a net-short position on certain stock (banks maybe) when there is a short selling ban in place for those stock?

One way would be to short a futures market like a industry specific EURO STOXX Futures Index (banks maybe) but there are many other ways to capture the trade and this one is extremely riskier than other possible trades.

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If you can find ETFs that have similar holdings and one has your target short stock and the other doesn't, you can short the ETF with the desired stock while taking a long position in the others. Obviously not perfect and required really good balancing, but could find a way to weight everything so that it offsets everything but your target.

Could sell calls too

 

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