If a retail trader does get shares to short of a small stock. Unless it's Hot.
Liquidity and volume is so low these days.
So if you short a $2.00 stock and put a 10% stop cover at $2.20. It's almost certain that the industry will bump the stock to $2.20 and take out your short.
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Retail traders are at a disadvantage trading small stocks in a bear market
Why?
Because it's very difficult to get shares in small stocks to short. Mostly, only the Industry Pro's can get them.
So most retail traders only trade long and that doesn't work well in a bear market twitter.com/MasterBJones/s…