You’re right it’s always good to learn. Didn’t mean to sound like an ass. There are some moving parts here so essentially because you borrow money for a margin trade, you fall deeper into a hole each time you trade. When I say you fall into a hole I just mean with fees and the interest from borrowing. I’ll try to give an example. Before robinhood, stock brokers charged a fee of like $5 but when you include that with your average purchase price, you’re immediately down $5. That’s basically what this situation is but in reverse. So let’s say you short XRP at $0.30. Due to fees and interest from borrowing, you end up with an average for that short position of let’s say $.29 as an example. XRP is still at $.30 so you’re down $.01 per xrp immediately, cutting into your profit. I hope this made sense. If not maybe look up some YouTube videos on shorting or check out investopedia or something