But when they never crossed below the 100-day average, he established a long position.
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The opportunity will be evaluated as a long position with a three to twelve month investment horizon.
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The calls may have been written against a long position in the stock, or may have been sold outright.
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Sell stops can be orders to close out a long position, or they can be to initiate a short position.
This rebound amid the stock's longer-term uptrend could mark a nice entry point for a long position on the shares.
When these profitable divergences occur it is time to take a long position in the underperformer and a short position in the overachiever.
Alternatively, the trader may be cautiously optimistic on the pharmaceuticals giant, establishing the put spread to hedge a long position in the underlying shares.
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Disclosure: At the time this report was published, out of the stocks discussed herein, Paul McWilliams had a long position in AAPL, CREE, and INTC.
Tintle also manages risk in futures positions by using options, such as selling call options against a long position or selling puts against a short position.
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The index is 76% weighted to a long position in futures contracts on two-year Treasury yields and 24% weighted to a short position in 10-year Treasury yields.
The investor behind the transaction may be implementing the spread to hedge a long position in ADS shares, or may be establishing an outright bearish stance on the stock.
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While some analysts have downgraded the stock in recent weeks, David Einhorn, president and manager of hedge fund Greenlight Capital, actually sniffs value and has taken a long position.
He would be most inclined to establish a long position on pullbacks to the 8- and 10-day moving averages, provided they in turn are above the 100- and 200-day averages.
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With the knee-jerk earnings reaction played out, and technical support in place just below the stock, now may be a good time to enter a long position on NFLX.
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According to Hedge Fund Wisdom, a quarterly publication put out by MarketFolly.com, nearly all top hedge fund portfolios have a long position in international stocks of all sizes.
You can get the currency exposure either by purchasing short-term paper issued by the flaky government in question or by taking a long position in the futures market for that currency.
Rival hedge fund titans Daniel Loeb and Carl Icahn challenged him, with Loeb announcing a long position in Herbalife and Icahn questioning Ackman's investment skills in a live showdown on CNBC.
But before Dan Loeb and Carl Icahn had taken a long position on the other side of the trade from Bill Ackman, there was Robert Chapman of Chapman Capital LLC.
Rival hedge fund titans Daniel Loeb and Carl Icahn challenged him with Loeb announcing a long position in Herbalife and Icahn questioning Ackman's investment skills all together in an epic CNBC showdown.
The investor may be employing the three-way spread to take finance an outright bearish view on the stock, or could be using the trade to hedge a long position in the underlying shares.
Note: We have a long position in Apple.
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In order to help me learn the importance of such behavior, my boss talked me into creating a long position in a particular currency even while he knew all along that it would turn against me.
The put player may be establishing the spread to hedge a long position in the underlying and protect recent share price gains, or could be outright bearish on the European bank in the expectation that the rally is not here to stay.
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For a long position that has become very profitable, you may move your stop-sell order from the loss to the profit zone to safeguard against the chance of realizing a loss in case your trade does not reach your specified profit objective, and the market turns against your trade.
Those same investors may choose to hold a core long position, but it seems to me that it might be a good idea to trim the sails by taking a few profits now and then.
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These contracts were likely purchased in order to protect a long stock position.
Since that period, I have been actively trading gold based on the technical pattern and market conditions, but maintained a net long position.
As of Aug. 2, managed-money accounts held a net long position of 253, 653 lots for futures and options combined in the disaggregated report.
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The risk in Apple stock has been rising, which is why I have been recommending taking partial profits in Apple stock while still holding a healthy long position in Apple.
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