Sentences with phrase «means taking a short position»

This simply means taking a short position in the hope that the futures price will go down.

Not exact matches

Many futures traders prefer to be long - only traders, which means that they may not entertain the idea of taking a short position.

That means you can buy up to twice as many shares as in a cash account, and this might let you take advantage of short - term market opportunities without selling any of your existing positions.

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.

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.

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.