Sentences with phrase «of taking a short position»

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

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.

The brokerage also said clients will not be able to take short positions, or bet against bitcoin futures, «due to the extreme volatility of cryptocurrencies.»

While he's long on most of the equity in the fund, he'll take a short position on sectors or securities that seem overvalued.

And Twitter dropped 12 % after short - seller Citron Research took a position in the company, saying «of all social media, they are most vulnerable to privacy regulation.»

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.

A short video from one female executive won't change that, but hopefully a lot more women in positions of power and a growing awareness that burning the midnight oil takes a serious toll on families, relationships and even individuals (not to mention a more equitable sharing of housework and childcare between the sexes) will slowly make it safe for more of us to say to our bosses — or admit to ourselves — what Sandberg has just said publicly.

On Wednesday, I wrote about the abrupt ouster of biotech company chief Martin Shkreli, a former short seller who took the ultimate long position — starting Retrophin, a publicly traded drug manufacturer.

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 addition, certain of Kitco's affiliates and employees may, from time to time, have long and short positions in, or buy or sell precious metals, precious metals related securities, or derivatives thereof, of companies mentioned in respective Services and may take positions inconsistent with the views expressed.

«The SEC alleges that one of the world's largest hedge funds, Paulson & Co., paid Goldman Sachs to structure a transaction in which Paulson & Co. could take short positions against mortgage securities chosen by Paulson & Co. based on a belief that the securities would experience credit events.»

The crowding in short - volatility positions is evidence of a broader trend: increased risk taking.

In addition to exiting all long positions at the ideal time, our market timing model prompted us to take on a bit of short exposure as well.

The common element is that any long position taken in a specific equity is offset by a short position in either a merger partner (risk arbitrage), an «overvalued» member of the same sector (long / short paired trading), a convertible bond (convertible arbitrage), a futures contract (index arbitrage) or an option contract (volatility arbitrage).

Some invest in just bitcoin, taking both long and short positions, some buy a basket of cryptocurrencies and others exploit the arbitrage between different exchanges» prices.

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.

When you expect the price of a Stock to fall, you can choose to take a short position in a Single Stock CFD.

[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.

Net exposure takes into account the benefits of offsetting long and short positions and is calculated by subtracting the percentage of the Fund's equity capital invested in short sales from the percentage of its equity capital used for long positions.

He also rejected to bet against the virtual currency market by saying that «Why in the world should I take a long or short position of something I don't know anything about?»

I purchased the options to take advantage of the short - sale restrictions that had been in place, and these options should have been replaced by short stock positions at a good opportunity.

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 decShort Equity - An investing strategy of taking long positions in stocks that are expected to appreciate and short positions in stocks that are expected to decshort positions in stocks that are expected to decline.

«Why in the world should I take a long or short position of something I don't know anything about?»

To take the position that somehow the social malfunctioning and many forms of systemic suffering are continually being overcome in God's consequent nature comes short of speaking effectively to the immediate need of victims of oppression.

After this brief, but I hope useful, reflection on the theological aspects of Adam Smith's economics, I shall now attempt to provide a short summary of the various positions taken on the relationship between Christian theology and economics.

U r absolutely right mate dat d more important positions are not being taken care of, i too am disappointed and frustrated, but we are only 2 - 3 players short to actually compete for title.

A poor Conversion Ratio of goals scored from shots taken puts us at a lowly 5th position in the League and gives us a clue to what is our main weakness and why we came up short in the title race.

We are clearly short of quality in some positions and our English core of players hasn't exactly taken us to a higher level.

With Louis van Gaal's side somewhat short of options in midfield last season as Michael Carrick spent a lot of time out injured and new players like Ander Herrera and Daley Blind took time to settle, it's clear that Schneiderlin could make a fine addition in that key position.

SC19 is our best midfielders ANYTIME: He can play up to 3 or 4 positions; He will drive team out of tight a defence; He can use both legs efectively; He has a decent short taking with high degree of accuracy; He is a cool headed guy with great skills (typical Spaniard).

While the SPCA Serving Erie County frowns on the procedure, it is stopping short of taking an official position, and explained that in past years, there was an undesirable unintended consequence.

It's OK to take a short postdoc position to buy time exploring alternative careers, but if you're serious about an academic career, you must identify the postdoc lab that will maximize your chances of long - term academic success.

After two years, however, the reality of short - term contracts kicked in and Pullin moved to take up another post-doc position in Utah, followed by a tenure - track position at Pennsylvania State University.

Explaining the phenomenon, the article noted that it is so difficult for scientists to find a permanent position in Germany that those below the age of 40 are often forced to take short - term employment without any financial or residential stability.

No matter how far they walked, the subjects always stopped short when wearing the glasses, and went too far after they took the prisms off, the team reports in the 8 November issue of Nature, indicating that their brains had been using the distorted vertical position to gauge distance.

This is because that lifter dictates the speed of the set, because he has to hit 100 reps.. Once he hits 100 reps (or whatever desired number you select), you take a short break and switch positions.

When this isn't possible, take a short break (even if it's only a 2 second break) every 20 minutes or so get out of the bad posture, move around or change positions.

In this short video, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk demonstrates the Position of Joy and shows you how it changes the way you take in emotions.

9 Sex Positions That Will Take Your Tried - & - True Missionary To The Next Level Newly called missionaries attend a short training period at one of 15 church Missionary Training Centers (MTCs) worldwide.

Position away, O ye spinners: The good news for all who are not awards voters is that this newer, shorter World — shorter, anyway, in the category of languid movies over two hours — is that it communicates Malick's luminous artistic vision of innocence and loss, wildness and order, risks taken and chances lost, with more clarity than his first cut.

In short, the dominant configurations of teaching and teacher education generally work against teachers taking up positions of professional expertise and collaborative knowledge - making — even before considering the challenge of post-typographic texts and digital epistemologies.

Amazon is taking another step towards positioning itself as a content creator with the launch of StoryFront on Wednesday, a new platform for publishing short fiction.

Bond trading can be short, or long term and allows bond traders to take a position on future interest rate movements while leveraging the security and stability of government treasuries.

Managed futures as an asset class are historically non-correlated to the stock and bond markets over long term periods and encompass a wide range of trading strategies (generally taking long / short positions in futures contracts on equity indices, commodities, financials and currencies).

As the current market regime wanes, we believe a case can be made for dynamic strategies that are responsive to changing market conditions, in particular, managed futures strategies that take long / short positions across a diversified basket of commodity and financial market futures.

The funds seek to hedge against the negative impact of currency risk by taking short positions in currency forward contracts.

With the remaining 40 % of the portfolio, I recommend taking shorter - term tactical positions in technology shares ($ XLK), beaten - down periphery Eurozone shares ($ EWP) and select emerging market positions ($ TUR and $ AFK).

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.

It's definitely not advisable to take an unhedged short position, either by borrowing someone else's share (s) to sell or selling an option (when you sell the option you take the risk), because of the unlimited loss potential described above.

I do know that there are gains to be made in the short run from taking the opposite position, unusual as that is... but as with any anomaly in the market, be cautious, because the motives of other players shift, making opportunities more attractive, less attractive, or unattractive.