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2. Short (finance) - Wikipedia

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   In finance, being short in an asset means investing in such a way that the investor will profit if the market value of the asset falls. This is the opposite of the more common long position, where the investor will profit if the market value of the asset rises.

3. Long position vs. short position: What’s the difference in ...

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   Going short, or short selling, is a way to profit when a stock declines in price. While going long involves buying a stock and then selling later, going short reverses this order of events.

4. Naked short selling - Wikipedia

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   Short selling is a form of speculation that allows a trader to take a "negative position" in a stock of a company.Such a trader first borrows shares of that stock from their owner (the lender), typically via a bank or a prime broker under the condition that they will return it on demand.

5. Long/short equity - Wikipedia

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   Market neutral strategies can be seen as the limiting case of equity long/short, in which the long and short portfolios of the fund are balanced with great care so that a very high degree of hedging is achieved. Some advantages of market neutral strategies include being able to generate positive returns in a down market, and generating returns ...

6. How the stock market is getting a boost from short sellers - AOL

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   Coinbase stock is up 70% over the last month while Carvana stock is up 91% over the same period. Short interest on both of those stocks currently sits above 20% and 54% of the float respectively ...

7. Short squeeze - Wikipedia

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   In the stock market, a short squeeze is a rapid increase in the price of a stock owing primarily to an excess of short selling of a stock rather than underlying fundamentals. A short squeeze occurs when demand has increased relative to supply because short sellers have to buy stock to cover their short positions.

8. Position (finance) - Wikipedia

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   In finance, a position is the amount of a particular security, commodity or currency held or owned by a person or entity. [1]In financial trading, a position in a futures contract does not reflect ownership but rather a binding commitment to buy or sell a given number of financial instruments, such as securities, currencies or commodities, for a given price.

9. Stock market - Wikipedia

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   A stock market, equity market, or share market is the aggregation of buyers and sellers of stocks (also called shares), which represent ownership claims on businesses; these may include securities listed on a public stock exchange as well as stock that is only traded privately, such as shares of private companies that are sold to investors ...