Short selling = Borrowing shares and selling based on expecting a price drop, you can hold these as long as you like but you’re going to be paying interest on borrowing them so you NEED to sell them eventually.
Put options instead give you the right to sell at a preset price within a specific time frame, so you could buy options at X price then even if it goes down later you are still guaranteed the price of the options.
Short selling = Borrowing shares and selling based on expecting a price drop, you can hold these as long as you like but you’re going to be paying interest on borrowing them so you NEED to sell them eventually.
Put options instead give you the right to sell at a preset price within a specific time frame, so you could buy options at X price then even if it goes down later you are still guaranteed the price of the options.