Traders use stock loan desks to access securities to buy or to borrow to sell short.
First, I sell short futures on the global equity markets (which are relatively liquid).
And that is to sell short shares of public companies that are poised to go bankrupt.
He's thinking about the next company he'll sell short to capitalize on the financial meltdown.
We buy stocks when prices are trending up and sell or sell short when prices are trending down.
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Of those more then 42% are being borrowed by traders to sell short.
Imagine, when there is an earnings miss, the program automatically triggers orders to sell short and the stock plunges.
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The fact that the debt could be converted for a set dollar value of shares added an extra incentive to sell short.
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Also, iPad sales in the latest quarter were sell short of expectations.
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Since regulated mutual funds back then were not permitted to sell short, these portfolios could only be offered privately, in limited partnerships.
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.
Sedona made the investors agree not to sell short the shares.
Our year-end Love Only One contest invites analysts and money managers to stick their necks out by choosing one stock to buy or to sell short.
But Cox placed his hopes on a new and very far-reaching rule that makes it a crime to sell short, which is to bet on a stock going down.
The uptick rule, in place from the 1930s, forced traders who wanted to borrow stock to sell short to wait for an uptick in the price before putting on their trades.
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Similarly the price traders have been willing to pay for the privilege of borrowing Netflix shares, another reliable proxy for the demand to sell short, has been climbing steadily since summer.
Sell or sell short consumer discretionary spending companies .
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.
The focus in the options market for us is that any tick rule, any situation where you would limit the ability to sell short, needs to be exempted for the options market makers--those professionals that provide liquidity into the market place.
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.
Traders and active investors who would rather buy than sell short in order to take advantage of any setback in the Asian stock rally may want to consider a leveraged, inverse alternative: the ProShares UltraShort FTSE China 25 ETF (NYSE: FXP).
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Last month, on the Monday after Bear Stearns' collapse, the SEC proposed a new "naked short-selling anti-fraud rule" that is supposed to rein in manipulative trading by preventing short-sellers from misrepresenting to a broker that they have properly located stock to borrow to sell short.
The SEC contends in its most recent case that Thomas Badian's brother, Andreas Badian, an official at Rhino, directed three brokers who were affiliated with Refco Securities, (two of them were also affiliated with another brokerage that was named in the case) to sell short massive amounts of Sedona shares with "unbridled levels of aggression, " intending to "clobber" Sedona's stock price until it collapsed.
Within minutes I had learned that more than likely the news was false, allowing me to short sell for a very short-term trade.
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