Is shorting the most profitable option when investing against the stock?
If I'm not wrong, the most profitable option in investing against the stock is shorting where if you lend 10 stocks at $1,000 price per stock and if the stock value drops to $10 per stock and you decide to sell, your profit on 10 stocks previously worth $10,000 is $9,900, so your total revenue is $19,900 where if you bought 10 stocks at $100 per stock and the value of stock increased to $1000 per stock you would make $10,000, so you made 100x ROI and with shorting you can't make more than 2x ROI, is there no way to earn more than 2x ROI betting against the stock?
In short, no. I wouldn't look at roi on any particular trade quite like that anyway.
If you're shorting a stock/commodity you're going to have to borrow it at the same time which is the cashflow you're missing there.
I can go into more detail if you need.
Missed your second question sorry. With plain vanilla equity shorting, doubling your money is effectively the max payout (sell something, and it goes to zero, so you can buy it back for free). That relies on the assumption that the minimum price is 0 (in something like oil in April prices went below 0). However there are plenty of ways to leverage the position, the most common would be put options.
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