Sentences with phrase «losses on their short positions»

Dwyer: Exactly, it's not easy to cash out bitcoin from an exchange and thus use to cover your unrealized losses on your short position.

Although the turnaround in the stock's fortunes may only prove to be temporary, few short sellers can afford to risk runaway losses on their short positions and may prefer to close them out even if it means taking a substantial loss.

Any loss on short positions may or may not be offset by investing short - sale proceeds in other investments.

Not exact matches

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.

But be warned: ranges get broken, so you would be wise to consider placing a sell stop limit (to cover your long position on an unexpected fall through your buying price) and a buy stop limit (to cover your short position on an unexpected rise through your selling price) to protect yourself from losses caused by wild price movements.

There is not yet any technical reason to assume the broad market has formed a significant bottom, but it is equally risky to enter new short positions right now because stocks are due for a substantial bounce (the Nasdaq is on pace for its sixth consecutive week of losses).

similar to a short option position because they... are subject to non-linear losses based on variance, gamma, rates, or correlation change

I liquidated my gold position for a small loss on Wednesday when spot gold traded above $ 1325 and I remain short the S+P with a combination of option positions.

It implies that short sellers are being squeezed out of their short positions, usually at a loss, and is generally triggered by a positive development that suggests the stock may be embarking on a turnaround.

Even a short spell on the treatment table could result in a player losing his place in the side in the long term, as could loss of form or the acquisition of a new player in the same position.

And they STUCK those losses with their clients - only they are telling the Committee today - that their original losses were «long» positions - and they were dumping their «short» on their clients.

As I have mentioned previously I simply run a nightly scan of Long and Short stock candidates hitting 52 week highs / lows and keep note of these stocks and over the course of the coming days and weeks I look for which stocks keep hitting the parameters of my scans before taking a closer look at the chart, once I see there is a clean smooth trend be it going up or down I then calculate from that afternoons closing price and where the stop loss would need to be positioned on the first day the trade is placed in line with my risk management and then simply wait for the open the following day to open the trade then my system does the rest.

In my small unique book «The small stock trader» I also had more detailed overview of tens of stock trading mistakes (http://thesmallstocktrader.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/stock-day-trading-mistakessinceserrors-that-cause-90-of-stock-traders-lose-money/): • EGO (thinking you are a walking think tank, not accepting and learning from you mistakes, etc.) • Lack of passion and entering into stock trading with unrealistic expectations about the learning time and performance, without realizing that it often takes 4 - 5 years to learn how it works and that even +50 % annual performance in the long run is very good • Poor self - esteem / self - knowledge • Lack of focus • Not working ward enough and treating your stock trading as a hobby instead of a small business • Lack of knowledge and experience • Trying to imitate others instead of developing your unique stock trading philosophy that suits best to your personality • Listening to others instead of doing your own research • Lack of recordkeeping • Overanalyzing and overcomplicating things (Zen - like simplicity is the key) • Lack of flexibility to adapt to the always / quick - changing stock market • Lack of patience to learn stock trading properly, wait to enter into the positions and let the winners run (inpatience results in overtrading, which in turn results in high transaction costs) • Lack of stock trading plan that defines your goals, entry / exit points, etc. • Lack of risk management rules on stop losses, position sizing, leverage, diversification, etc. • Lack of discipline to stick to your stock trading plan and risk management rules • Getting emotional (fear, greed, hope, revenge, regret, bragging, getting overconfident after big wins, sheep - like crowd - following behavior, etc.) • Not knowing and understanding the competition • Not knowing the catalysts that trigger stock price changes • Averaging down (adding to losers instead of adding to winners) • Putting your stock trading capital in 1 - 2 or more than 6 - 7 stocks instead of diversifying into about 5 stocks • Bottom / top fishing • Not understanding the specifics of short selling • Missing this market / industry / stock connection, the big picture, and only focusing on the specific stocks • Trying to predict the market / economy instead of just listening to it and going against the trend instead of following it

Scalper A speculator on the trading floor of an exchange who buys and sells rapidly, with small profits or losses, holding his positions for only a short time during a trading session.

It implies that short sellers are being squeezed out of their short positions, usually at a loss, and is generally triggered by a positive development that suggests the stock may be embarking on a turnaround.

Shares of stock offset a short position in the same stock, so the purchase, which occurs on the trade date, can trigger built - in gain even though loss won't be reported until the short position is actually closed, on the settlement date.

When trading in a downtrend on a short position, the approach is to set a stop loss just above the swing high since this could represent a potential resistance level.

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.

If you close a short sale at a loss by delivering shares you held at the time you entered into the short sale, your loss was incurred on the long position, not on the short position.

Similarly, when the market becomes bearish it is the time to sell and at this status, the trader must hold resistance on short positions with stop - loss; these positions must be squared off again when the market reaches neutral state.

That means value investing has had to get more sophisticated — and, one might argue, riskier — by taking more short positions, as Einhorn does, which can bankrupt someone who shorted a stock at $ 20 and has to cover that short at $ 100; by piling on more debt; or by investing in situations where a total loss is possible.

On the contrary, you will generally suffer a loss, if the market price of the underlying asset rises whilst your CFD short position is open.

For example, to hedge one's long positions with short sales, so that if the market declines the loss on long positions will be offset by profit on the short positions.

Note that any losses on the Bitcoin position is offset by the short position in the Jan Bitcoin Futures contract.

Price collapse of bitcoin will help miners to recover their losses and tremendous price increase will help miners gain on their 90 % even after losing 10 % of their short position.

The long and short of it In short, a tax - loss harvest occurs when we sell poorly performing positions in taxable accounts and use the losses to offset taxes on any capital gains.