Sentences with phrase «large short positions»

[11] It may also be useful to adopt the techniques used successfully by Singapore (and now others) to limit the ability of domestic banks to lend to foreigners in domestic currency, thus making it much harder for foreign speculators to take large short positions on the currency.

More impressive, Icahn claims his portfolio has largely been hedged in the last few years — his stock holdings offset by large short positions of the S&P 500 Index.

Technicals: Price action is beginning to show the slightest bit of exhaustion to the downside and considering how large the short position is, we could see this turn quickly.

Well one such method supplied to us on a weekly basis is the Commitment of Traders Report from the CME which, although showing a small drop in the amount of short positions, still shows an extreme 5 - times larger short position than long.

If you're going to take that risk with either a large long position or a large short position, you had better have a firm expectation that there is a significant expected return associated with that risk.

This is Kase's largest short position.

In silver, hedges now have their largest short position since 2010.

«We basically held a large short position in the company that we started in December of 2012 and we've held it up to the stock price rise.»

Alternatively, traders could take on large short positions themselves, with the large volume of selling ideally causing the price to fall, making the strategy self perpetuating.