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Admitting mistakes can be hard, but you’ll be better off as an investor if you can realize them quickly and get out of your position. 3. The company’s business outlook has changed
Knowing when to sell stocks is just as important as knowing when to buy them. Read on to learn key indicators and tips on when it is the right time to sell.
Selling an investment when you're panicked is almost never a good choice. Here are seven indications that it might be time to sell an investment. 7 Signs it's Time to Sell an Investment
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.
Consequently, investors will be energetic to sell stocks that have risen in value but holding onto stocks that have decreased value. The researchers coined the term "disposition effect" to describe this tendency of holding on to losing stocks too long and to sell off well-performing stocks too readily.
One variant of selling short involves a long position. "Selling short against the box" consists of holding a long position on which the shares have already risen, whereupon one then enters a short sell order for an equal number of shares. The term box alludes to the days when a safe deposit box was used to store (long) shares. The purpose of ...
In the following video, Motley Fool Chief Investment Officer Andy Cross takes a question from a Fool reader, who asks, "The lifelong question. When to sell. I'm great at timing buying, but waffle ...
Proprietary trading (also known as prop trading) occurs when a trader trades stocks, bonds, currencies, commodities, their derivatives, or other financial instruments with the firm's own money (instead of using customer funds) to make a profit for itself.