No options, no shares available for short sale

External question — Personal Finance Stack Exchange Author: ak87 Original post: https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/126815 License: CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Adaptation: HTML converted to plain text; contact email addresses removed. I want to bet that certain stocks will decline in price, but they have no options and there are insufficient shares available for a short sale according to my broker. Do I have any other way to take advantage of a potential decline in these stocks’ prices?