Only do this if you are an experienced trader. You can buy warrants to help you do this. First learn everything at the education link on the left and attend the warrants courses that SFM do. I tried warrants for a while, but found that I looked at them 10 times a day and didn't get any work done. I found that if I didn't try to trade, I made more money in my normal job. BTW, it is still possible to make a 20%+ return on the stock market. An easy way is to buy the top 40. A way to hedge is to put 20% into the Gold ETF or physical gold. Good luck. Over the long term, it has been proven that the quickest and safest way to make money is to have 20% of your portfolio in Gold and Gold shares. Also commodities, eg BIL which by itself is like buying a commodities index. Note that you can be completely wiped out with warrants; ie lose 100% of your investment; plus even if you make money you can lose your investment quickly, eg because of "decay". Remember to set stop losses (20 to 30% trailing) - and don't worry when you lose money - especially initially - decide how much your fund is and stick to it - don't get into gambling (some people think the stock market IS gambling - for myself I treat everything on the stock market as a gamble - ie at any time I am prepared to lose 100% of my stock market investment - I'd rather not, but you never know). If you could short the companies yourself, you could lose much more than 100% of your investment! This is probably why it is not done in RSA. Also if you do this, open a second Standard Bank SFM account which you can use for trading whilst keeping your investment account free of tax.