A long / short equity strategy seeks to minimize market exposure, while profiting from stock gains in the long positions and price
declines in the short positions.
Not exact matches
This is a company that has taken out a major
short position in our company and then issued a report designed to make them money by the
decline of our stock,» he said.
May still have 1 - 2
short positions in the portfolio if the buy signal is weak and the prior
decline was significant
Therefore we expect the
decline in interest rate futures, specifically the 10 - year Treasury Notes and 30 - year Treasury Bonds to be a temporary effect of speculative exuberance, and for interest rate futures to rally through the end of the month as the heavily
short speculators are forced out of their
positions.
Some are betting on further
declines; speculative
short positioning is at three - and - a-half year highs
in the futures market.
The benefit and cost of hedging with a «flat»
short position in a given market index is straightforward: if the market
declines, the
short position offsets the impact of the market loss on the portfolio; if the market gains, the
short position surrenders the impact of the market gain.
Trump's victory was a surprise to many, but I think a lot of the concern was already priced
in and a lot of market participants were heavily
short peso prior to the election and
positioning for a
decline.
If a trader sells
short a stock because the company has stated that they expect demand for their key product to
decline in the years ahead, then the trader may need to give the
position some room to fluctuate.
Since then, Core Labs has
declined significantly
in price, but I'm still holding the
short position.
The numbers presented above would suggest that both gold and silver will not be set - up to embark on a major move higher until the both the total open interest
in gold and the net
short position in gold of the commercials banks
declines by another 60 - 70k contracts.
Long /
Short Equity - An investing strategy of taking long positions in stocks that are expected to appreciate and short positions in stocks that are expected to dec
Short Equity - An investing strategy of taking long
positions in stocks that are expected to appreciate and
short positions in stocks that are expected to dec
short positions in stocks that are expected to
decline.
In this case the corporate bond portfolio may rise less (or decline more) in value than the hedge offered by the short treasury positio
In this case the corporate bond portfolio may rise less (or
decline more)
in value than the hedge offered by the short treasury positio
in value than the hedge offered by the
short treasury
position.
Even as the number of
short - term contract researchers moving into potentially permanent posts
declines, Legge 133/08 is also likely to reduce the number of contract
positions available
in Italy.
An airline is unlikely to take a
short position in crude oil, as
declining prices benefit the bottom line.
I just wanted to toss this suggestion your way and the motivation is partly selfish, but given the
decline in gold the last 3 - 4 days (I actually exited all my long
positions around 1500 - 1505 last Friday based on the breach of the technical support level at 1525 - 1535 and am now
short in my trading account from that same level) I'd be interested to get your qualitative thoughts and maybe an update on your refined quantitative model with negative real interest rates and where it says gold should be trading.
Selling
short: Selling a security or future that the seller does not own, either to lock
in a gain on a long
position or to make a gain on an anticipated
decline in the market.
For the early part of any credit - related
decline in bond prices, there are obvious hedges, such as credit default swaps,
short Treasury bond futures
positions and inverse Treasury ETFs.
The idea is to take
short positions in commodities so you can gain from price
declines.
These funds dedicate most of their portfolios to
short stock
positions in an attempt to benefit from anticipated market
declines...
The benefit and cost of hedging with a «flat»
short position in a given market index is straightforward: if the market
declines, the
short position offsets the impact of the market loss on the portfolio; if the market gains, the
short position surrenders the impact of the market gain.
Pimco Total Return Fund suffered its biggest
decline in almost two decades
in 2013, hurt by similar
positions in shorter - term debt and inflation - linked bonds.
The role of
short positions is to achieve positive returns through
declines in value above the cost of carry.
I also have a
position in MFC Industrial, a company with exposure to metals and oil and gas (which, however, I will be selling shortly), a video game developer that is a net / net (Gravity Ltd.), a small
position in RadioShack (made even smaller by the
decline in share price over the past 2 years), and finally a
short - term spinoff trade (Oil States International).
Gross believes that rates are headed higher, and he's
positioned the portfolio for such an event, investing more than a third of the portfolio
in short - term securities that have left his funds to deep, broad
decline in fixed - income portfolios
in 2013.
Since then, Core Labs has
declined significantly
in price, but I'm still holding the
short position.
They also maintain a
short position against the broad stock market to hedge against a market
decline and invest the majority of their assets
in cash alternatives and high quality,
short - term fixed income securities.
By taking a
short position in the E-Mini NASDAQ futures market, and offsetting sector - specific exposure, a market participant can protect against
short - term downside risk and offset potential
declines around specific economic events.
A Fund may sell securities
short as an outright investment strategy and to offset potential
declines in long
positions in similar securities.
Selling
short: Sale of a security or commodity futures contract that is not owned by the seller; a technique used (1) to take advantage of an anticipated
decline in the price or (2) to protect a profit
in a long
position.
The purpose of the hack is yet to be established but some believe it was aimed to benefit investors with
short positions in BTC and also those that were betting on its price
declining.