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2. Hedge (finance) - Wikipedia

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   A hedge is an investment position intended to offset potential losses or gains that may be incurred by a companion investment. A hedge can be constructed from many types of financial instruments, including stocks, exchange-traded funds, insurance, forward contracts, swaps, options, gambles, [1] many types of over-the-counter and derivative products, and futures contracts.

3. Short (finance) - Wikipedia

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   If the short position begins to move against the holder of the short position (i.e., the price of the security begins to rise), money is removed from the holder's cash balance and moved to their margin balance. If short shares continue to rise in price, and the holder does not have sufficient funds in the cash account to cover the position, the ...

4. Long/short equity - Wikipedia

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   A hedge fund might sell short one automobile industry stock, while buying another—for example, short $1 million of DaimlerChrysler, long $1 million of Ford.With this position, any event that causes all auto industry stocks to fall will cause a profit on the DaimlerChrysler position and a matching loss on the Ford position.

5. What Is Hedging? Here’s What Investors Should Know - AOL

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   Hedging is an investment strategy that is simple in concept but that can be difficult in execution. The primary uses of hedging strategies are to either lock in a profit or to protect against a...

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

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   Being short a stock means that you have a negative position in the stock and will profit if the stock falls. Being long a stock is straightforward: You purchase shares in the company and you’re ...

7. How to Short a Stock — and Why You Shouldn’t - AOL

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   Short selling is an investment technique that generates profits when shares of a stock go down, rather than up. If you're a fan of the movies, you might remember the 2015 film "The Big Short ...

8. Forward contract - Wikipedia

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   For a short position, it is: = Since the final value (at maturity) of a forward position depends on the spot price which will then be prevailing, this contract can be viewed, from a purely financial point of view, as "a bet on the future spot price" [ 3 ]

9. Top 10 Short Positions Held By Hedge Funds Today - AOL

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   With the emergence of retail investors on Reddit, we are seeing a large interest in shorted stocks. Investment Firms and hedge funds that manage wealth often take short positions in an effort to ...