We buy stocks when prices are trending up and sell or sell short when prices are trending down.
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This strategy gives you the higher interest rate of the long term bond but also gives you flexibility to buy and sell the short term bonds if interest rates rise.
Imagine, when there is an earnings miss, the program automatically triggers orders to sell short and the stock plunges.
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What if you sell and reinvest in short-term paper yielding only 2%?
There are two predictable human reactions to the hot IPOs coming out of China, and they are the same as for any investment bubble: Get in while the going is good, or sell short and hope for the sky to fall.
Eventually, the stock market collapsed, his income declined in value instead of increasing, and he was forced to sell his house (a short sale) for less than the original selling price and much less than he owed.
And that is to sell short shares of public companies that are poised to go bankrupt.
Bad painters may persuade a buyer to pay over the odds and good ones may sell themselves short.
In 2010 the big miners abandoned the benchmark and began to sell their ore on short-term contracts, at prices set on a nascent spot market.
Both German and Eurozone second-quarter gross domestic product sadly lacked the vim and vigor of the previous quarter and was greeted by jaw-dropping disappointment by investors who were quick to sell out of short-term gains in equities and clutch at the safety of government bonds.
"If this week's lows are taken out next week, I will sell all longs and be 100% short, " he says.
This could prompt some traders to exit those positions, and still others might sell, or go short, in an effort to profit on any short-term downtick.
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There will be more bank failures no matter what, but the government wants to prevent otherwise healthy banks from unnecessarily failing because they are unable to sell short-term notes and bonds to fund their own activities.
Did you sell or short when the head and shoulders top produced a close below the neckline at 1360-1370?
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Many people assume they can simply work in retirement and that way of thinking may sell them short, sabotaging their retirement planning.
Because hedge funds are unregulated, managers are free to sell short, use leverage, and invest in illiquid securities--activities not open to mutual-fund managers.
Previous short term, multi-day sell-offs in early October and early September were also excellent opportunities for traders to make quick work of short term oversold extremes.
Short sellers borrow stocks and sell them hoping to buy them back later at a lower price and pocket the difference.
Investors can use (TBF) and (TBT) as vehicles to sell bonds short.
The exchange's enforcement arm says JPMorgan inaccurately marked sell orders, submitted inaccurate trading data and transacted short sales without reasonable grounds to believe the stocks could be borrowed.
Ignoring this information is a common put-buying mistake, and I have also found that most sell a stock short or buy a put based on fundamentals, as opposed to technical analysis.
While these investors could always sell their bonds as a result of changing market conditions, their approach is long-term and they are less likely to sell in reaction to short-term market fluctuations.
Every trader in America will try and short this gap open and sell the banks, which has been the right trade most of the time over the last few weeks, but things do not always act the same.
Short sellers, who sell borrowed shares and buy them back later at lower prices to make repayment, predicted that this threat to a key income stream for these institutions would plummet the entire sector.
Chief Executive Daniel Elliott wants to amass emission credits it will get from the California Air Resources Board (CARB) for selling zero-emission vehicles and then sell them to other automakers in danger of falling short of minimum requirements.
The circuit-breaker restrictions apply to that stock on the next day of trading as well, and short sales would stand in line behind sell orders from other traders.
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Short sales typically sell for less of a discount and allow a property to avoid bank repossession.
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Their aims were to make it harder for short-term portfolio investors to sell their shares and reap the proceeds, and for offshore hedge funds to drive down the currency.
Tailgates have been in the works for months, and it was on the (very) short list of sell-outs expected for the Jaguars this season.
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