In regular short-selling,traders borrow assets and sell them at a set price, hoping they can make a profit by buying them later at a lower price.

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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.

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When stocks of companies that regularly post accelerating rates of growth in sales and earnings make pornographically huge moves of 1, 000% and more, it attracts the attention of naysayers who regularly try to call an end to the huge bullish run and sell the shares short.

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