went short
Bet on decline
Went short is the past tense of go short, a financial term meaning to sell an asset 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: He went short on the stock just before it crashed.
Going short is the opposite of going long.
- dropFall or release
- bear marketProlonged securities decline
- price volatilityRate of cost fluctuation
- riskPossibility of harm
- squeezeFirm bilateral compression
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