short sell
Profit from decline
Short sell is a trading strategy where you sell something you don't own, betting its price will fall.
The seller borrows shares, sells them at the current price, then hopes to buy them back cheaper later to return to the lender—pocketing the difference.
If the price rises instead, losses are theoretically unlimited.
Hedge funds short sell stocks they believe are overvalued.
The noun is short sale; to have such a position is to be short.
- stock marketSecurities trading venue
- shortingCreating unintended circuit connection
- bear marketProlonged securities decline
- put optionContract to sell later
- speculationUnproven theorizing or risky investment
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