Absolutely, some hedge funds have learnt a painful lesson of a so-called short squeeze..
Put options can also be quite expensive but risk-wise way more attractive than shorting the stock.. To make options position less costly (but also inevitably give up some upside) put bear spreads could be considered: buying 1 put option and short-selling another put option with a lower strike.
there are certain parameters like net price improvement, percentage of improved orders and execution speed.. retail brokerages are encourage to make such data public by FINRA:
options trading is a valuable hedge, especially against the market crash. the outcome should be mitigated with proper tools, but yeah, those are expensive
Put options can also be quite expensive but risk-wise way more attractive than shorting the stock.. To make options position less costly (but also inevitably give up some upside) put bear spreads could be considered: buying 1 put option and short-selling another put option with a lower strike.