short selling
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- noun
- /ʃɔrt ˈsɛlɪŋ/
- Specialized
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- Many investors engage in short selling to profit from falling stock prices.
- short-selling stocks
- short-selling fund
So you know, OK, yeah, naked short selling happens.
- So you know, OK, yeah, naked short selling happens.
- What I have a beef against is naked short selling.
- When you bet against a stock, that's called short selling.
Examples
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You can short sell futures. You can sell futures without buying them, which is called short selling, and later buy within your expiry period to cover your positions.
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All evidence is pointing to speculation and trading of hedge funds and naked short selling as the real money makers.
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And he says the reason it's going back up is because the guys made money during short selling as Apple came down.
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As a result, he took advantage of short selling to limit his overall exposure, like taking insurance.
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Now they will scramble to limit short selling or find other emergency measures that will protect their credit.
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The consequences of short selling or defaulting later will be much more severe.
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During the near term, a continuation of this short-selling activity could create a steady headwind for BTU.
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Short-selling is only profitable when the shares are already overpriced, pushed into instability by the "long-horn" herd.
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The hedge fund's short selling strategy helped it to gain significant returns during the market downturn.
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Before entering short selling, make sure you understand the risks involved in borrowing securities.
Synonyms
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Selling shares you do not own to buy them back later at a lower price
Antonyms
How Risky
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound transparently signals a kind of selling (selling + short), so learners can infer it relates to selling connected with a 'short' position, but the precise mechanism—selling securities you do not own and later buying them back to profit from price falls—is technical and not derivable from the common meanings of the parts. Because understanding requires specific financial knowledge/jargon rather than pure compositional inference, the expression is only partially transparent to a B1 learner.
Etymology
The noun short selling comes from a simple image: you borrow shares and then sell them now even though you are short and do not own them. You hope to buy the shares back later at a lower price to return them, so the phrase means 'selling what you don't own to profit if the price falls'.