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Noun Concept
Categories: All articles needing additional references, Financial regulation, Short selling, Articles with short description, Financial markets
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short sale  short selling  short  Buy to cover  cover
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Sale of securities or commodity futures not owned by the seller (who hopes to buy them back later at a lower price) WordNet 3.0
English:
finance
futures
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Sale of securities or commodity futures not owned by the seller (who hopes to buy them back later at a lower price) WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
In finance, being short in an asset means investing in such a way that the investor will profit if the value of the asset falls. Wikipedia
Stock-trading position Wikipedia Disambiguation
A sale of a financial security, commodity, or other good that one does not own with the contractual obligation to make delivery of the good to the buyer at a date in the future. Wiktionary
IS A
trading
position
PART OF
covered call
HAS KIND
naked short selling
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
The Nuttall Encyclopædia
OPPOSITE OF
long
USES
selling
securities lending
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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short sale, short selling
Wikipedia
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short (finance)
Wikidata
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short
Wiktionary
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short sale
Wikipedia Redirections
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Buy to Cover, Buy to cover, Buying to cover, cover (finance), covering (short-selling), Dedicated short, going short, naked shorting, sell short, selling short, Short-and-distort, Short-sale, short-sell, short-seller, Short-sellers, short-selling, Short (futures), short position, short sale, short sales, short sell, short seller, short selling, Short selling., short term position, short transaction, shorted, shorting, Shorting against the box, Shortseller, shortselling, sold short
Wikidata Alias
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bear, going short, selling short, short position, short sale, short selling, shorting

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