eli5: How do people lose more than 100% in stocks?

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How is it possible? I thought you can only lose what you put in. So 100% max. But I’ve seen news and posts about how people lose much more than that.

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By short selling stocks, by buying on margin (taking out a loan from brokerage to buy shares beyond what you have available cash to buy).

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