Sentences with phrase «investors taking short positions»

Not exact matches

Still, it's easy to see how a combination of factors could induce unsavoury market participants to «short and distort» stocks — that is, to take short positions, then spread misleading information to capitalize on investors» fear and profit from the stock's resulting decline, to the detriment of the issuing company and the broader market's integrity.

Michael Lewis examines how some investors managed to take positions that benefitted from a collapse of the housing bubble in The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine.

In such cases, investors should ideally only take short positions when the overall trend is down (overall price is making lower highs and lower lows).

The long - term setups are unchanged in both the BTC and the USD pairs, and we still advise short - term traders to wait for a move before taking on new positions, while long - term investor could still accumulate XRP inside the consolidation patterns.

A surge in Herbalife stock would be disastrous for investors who, like Ackman, have taken a «short» position in the company.

In addition, investors take long and short positions in futures and options on key volatility indexes.

The buyback trend is popular among activist investors, particularly those who take short - term positions in companies.

Despite the expense ratios, it is still easier and less costly for an investor to take a position in an inverse ETF than it is to short sell stocks.

Or do fund managers pool money from all investors and then take one giant short position in the market?

Regular readers of my blog might think that I'm a long only value investor, but that's not the case: I do sometimes take small short positions in companies that seem fraudulent, have a poor business model or are simply far too expensive.

If the yield curve is expected to become flat, it raises fears of high inflation with the economy slipping into recession; with inflation worries and recession fears subduing each other, investors tend to take short positions in short - term securities and ETFs and go long on long - term securities.

It is definitely cheaper and simpler than taking many individual short positions or executing complex derivative strategies (which sophisticated investors generally use to protect themselves in a bear phase).

In the financial world, it is used to describe situations where short sellers purchase stock to cover losses or when investors sell long positions to take capital gains off the table.

Hedge fund: Private investment partnership (for US investors) or an offshore investment corporation (for non US tax exempt investors) in which the general partner has made substantial personal investment, and whose offering memorandum allows for the fund to take both long and short positions, use leverage and derivatives, and invest in many markets.

XBT futures will enable investors to take a directional view on the price of bitcoin (both long and short), gain exposure to bitcoin prices, or hedge their existing bitcoin positions

A new trading platform, BTC.sx, is offering investors the chance to take short and long positions on future bitcoin price movements against the...

A new trading platform, BTC.sx, is offering investors the chance to take short and long positions on future bitcoin price movements against the dollar.

The company suggests that investors could use its lending capacity to «hedge total portfolio risk or take speculative short positions,» but it also envisions other use cases for the service.

Justin Palmer — We've seen a lot of private high cost debt moving to New York and San Francisco, and there's a lot of family offices, I mean you can call it whatever you want, bridge lending, hard money lending, that space has grown pretty significantly in both New York and San Francisco where investors are effectively taking a short position on the ownership, because they like it at 80 cents on the dollar.

In the short sale, the investor or lender of the mortgage agrees to sell the property for less than the balance of the mortgage, i.e. they are taking loss and accepting a «short» position of the mortgage.