To profit from shorting it you need to not just be right that it is going to go down, but be able to tolerate the volatility in the interim.

If you have to ask, then you shouldn’t short it.

If you view that as an investment then no. If you view it as a minor flutter then maybe. You might believe that Team X will win the next game (maybe at a 60% chance) but unless you're a degenerate gambler you wouldn't bet heavily on that outcome.

As the late Charlie Munger said about Tesla: I wouldn't own it, I wouldn't short it.

Shorting the leading AI company during the AI revolution?

Reminds me when HN was saying NVIDIA is a good short 3 years ago, supposedly it was "in a bubble", because it's stock prices was as if it had 10x the revenue it had in back then. Plot twist: today NVIDIA revenue is 10x the revenue from 2023, so it turns out the stock was priced exactly right back then, because the stock market is forward looking.