Sentences with phrase «position at a loss»

«I have come to the conclusion that it is best to close that long position at a loss tonight.

If the stock goes up such that you've exhausted your buffer you'll receive what's known as a «margin call» where your broker either requires you to wire in more money or sell part or all of your position at a loss to avoid further losses.

I sold a few positions at a loss (a mistake) but managed to pick up some great names at bargain prices.

That means you can have a wash sale when you close an option position at a loss, if you establish a replacement position within the wash sale period.

@CC, anyone else: The problem that I (and perhaps many of us) have is that in order to rebalance my portfolio (target weight is 50 % equities, 33 % fixed income, 12 % alternative investments and 5 % cash) I would have to sell a lot of my equity positions at a loss (I took over management of my portfolio from my advisor 6 months ago and he had me 100 % in a equity - heavy mutual fund).

A key reason that these losses can be permanent is many fund managers actively buy and sell bonds, meaning they are highly likely to sell positions at a loss after a rise in rates, decline in credit rating or when a lack of liquidity may mean they have to sell at a lower market price.

Find opportunities to offset capital gains by selling other positions at a loss, thereby realizing tax savings (not available with basic accounts).

A short squeeze occurs when a heavily shorted stock or commodity rises in price, forcing short contract holders to «squeeze» out of their short positions at a loss and driving prices further up with the increased pressure.

Not exact matches

When the position is closed for good by the tax - loss harvester at $ 140,000, gross tax paid is $ 17,500 ($ 70,000 / 2 x 0.5), leaving net tax of $ 12,550 after deducting the earlier tax saving.

Outside of the fact that you happen to be reading one right now, I find that there are lots of smart, business savvy folks out there who when placed in the position of having to explain, strategize or build a blog (or decide if one should be built at all) are at a bit of a loss.

Penney, looking to steady its finances after reporting a loss of $ 116 million in its last fiscal year, also announced it was eliminating 130 positions at its headquarters in Plano, Texas, just the latest round of layoffs in recent years, as well as cutting 230 jobs at the store and regional level.

For example, if we weight expected returns, it is nearly impossible to give any weight at all to a credit strained environment and still justify a positive investment position, because of the size of the losses that can emerge in credit - strained conditions.

The Strategic Growth Fund remains fully hedged, with the same «staggered strike» position we had at the 2007 peak, which strengthens our defense against potential market losses by raising the strike prices of our defensive put options, at a cost of just over 1 % of assets in additional put premium (which is relatively inexpensive with the CBOE volatility index currently at about 17).

In our opinion, the accompanying Consolidated Balance Sheets and the related Consolidated Statements of Operations, Comprehensive Income (Loss), Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock and Stockholders» Equity (Deficit), and Cash Flows present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Fitbit, Inc. and its subsidiaries at December 31, 2013 and December 31, 2014, and the results of their operations and their cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2014 in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

The «Option Repair» strategy is used by equity traders who are facing a loss and want to reduce their break - even price so they can get out of the trade; furthermore, these option positions can typically be attained at little or no cost.

Financial services group Nordea, which banned its employees from engaging in off - the - clock cryptocurrency trading earlier this year, said at the time that financial institutions often «restrict the personal account dealing of staff to prevent them taking positions in speculative investments, or which might expose them to a risk of financial loss and therefore impact their financial standing.»

If one is long a broadly diversified portfolio of stocks and hedged with a short position in the major indices, the result is a net portfolio loss — and that can feel excruciating if the major indices are advancing at the same time.

The Company accounts for fuel derivative financial instruments at fair value and recognizes such instruments in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets in other current assets under prepaid expenses and other assets if the total net unsettled fair value balance is in a gain position, or other current liabilities if in a net loss position.

In our opinion, the accompanying consolidated balance sheets and the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive loss, redeemable convertible preferred stock, convertible preferred stock and stockholders» deficit, and cash flows present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Twitter, Inc. and its subsidiaries (the «Company») at December 31, 2012 and 2011, and the results of their operations and their cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2012 in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

When JPMorgan first started to talk about the botched trades — some of which are still open positions they are trying to unwind — the bank said that they had grown out of hedges aimed at protecting the bank against losses on the bank's large bond portfolio.

Their portfolio simulation approach: (1) is restricted to the technology, industrials, health care, financials and basic materials sectors; (2) assumes an extreme sentiment day for a stock has at least four novel news items (prior to 3:30 PM in New York) and is among the top 5 % of average daily positive or negative events; (3) makes portfolio changes at market close; (4) holds positions for 20 days, subject to a 5 % stop - loss rule and a 20 % take - profit rule; (5) constrains any one position to 15 % of portfolio value; and, (6) assumes round - trip trading friction of 0.25 %.

As the setup looks negative, we suggest booking a loss on 50 percent of the open positions and holding the rest with the stops at $ 7,600.

Then I simply manage the position and, if necessary, adjust my positions to remain profitable or cut my losses through smart risk management technics and collect my profits at the end of the trading cycle (monthly).

Our long positions initiated at $ 8,800 are trading under a loss.

Our long position in Litecoin recommended at $ 165 is under loss.

Now that the government is planning for an $ 8 billion cut,  the potential job losses could drive job losses to between 99,000 and 108,000 full time positions across Canada. At this much higher level, the federal government could be single - handedly responsible for pushing national unemployment from its current 7.5 % to 8.0 %.

Where the instrument currency is different to the account currency, currency conversions of trading costs as well as profit / loss from trading activities are executed using the FX Spot mid-price at the time of closing the position, plus / minus 0.5 %.

To date, we do not see a systemic threat from leveraged lending, since broad measures of credit outstanding do not suggest that nonfinancial borrowers, in the aggregate, are taking on excessive debt and the improved capital and liquidity positions at lending institutions should ensure resilience against potential losses due to their exposures.

«The unit at the centre of JP Morgan Chase's $ 2 billion trading loss has built up positions totalling more than $ 100 billion in asset - backed securities and structured products - the complex, risky bonds at the centre of the financial crisis in 2008.

Currency conversions of trading costs as well as profits and losses from trading activities are executed at the mid FX Spot rate when you close the position, plus / minus 0.5 %.

I'll keep adding to this position until the yield breaches its 2016 low, at which point I would cut my losses.

Updated April 19, 2018

A stop - loss order is simply an order that closes out your position at a specific price.

 The Harper government's decision last year to write off every penny of the auto aid and thus build it all into last year's deficit calculation (which I questioned at the time as curious and even misleading) has already been proven wrong. Since the money was already «written off» by Ottawa as a loss (on grounds that they had little confidence it would be repaid — contradicting their own assurances at the same time that it was an «investment,» not a bail - out), any repayment will come as a gain that can be recorded in the budget on the revenue side. Jim Flaherty has learned from past Finance Ministers (especially Paul Martin) that it's always politically better to make the budget situation look worse than it is (even when the bottom has fallen out of the balance), thus positioning yourself to triumphantly announce «surprising good news» (due, no doubt, to «careful fiscal management») down the road. The auto package could thus generate as much as $ 10 billion in «surprising good news» for Ottawa in the years to come (depending on the ultimate worth of the public equity share).

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.

For September 28th the strategy sold its positions in Vanguard MSCI U.S. REIT (VNQ) at a loss of 2.64 %, Vanguard MSCI U.S. SmallCap Value (VBR) at a gain of 2.83 % and PowerShares DB Commodity Index (DBC) at a loss of.38 % (individual ETF returns exclude dividends).

More commonly, as the business became more profitable and the owner begins making more money, he will leave wages where they are, but try to find a way to cut down on overhead adn production costs (potentially at a loss of worker salary or through layoffs when outsourcing is utilized), and will pocket the increased profits until the business is positioned well enough to be sold to a larger conglomoration for a substantial payout that NONE of the workers will see a dime of.

It should not be surprising then that Whitehead thought of God as a single actual entity immune to the possibility of loss.59 At least William Christian sees this as the proper Whiteheadian view.60 Nevertheless, Christian's position is challenged by Ivor Leclerc, who argues, in agreement with Hartshorne, that Christian's conclusion is incompatible with the categoreal scheme elaborated in chapter two of Process and Reality.61 Here, according to Leclerc, Whitehead «makes clear» that the category of «subjective perishing» is «necessarily applicable to every actual entity whatever, including God.»

This group rarely is in a position where they «need» a W. But, entering this Game they found themselves coming off a Loss and were already at 2 - 2..

In that 5 - 0 loss to Porto, Benfica made the audacious decision to start David Luiz at left back where he was absolutely eaten alive while playing out of position.

The loss against Watford — although I was gutted, I am glad at the same time, because questions are going to asked, namely «why when we were in such a strong position at the beginning of the season did it end up so bad» and, secondly, «with a year remaining on his deal is it really worthwhile keeping Wenger on?»

Wenger is a great asset to Arsenal, but as a manager with his flaws, it may be better to move him into an other position at the club and get someone who knows how to prevent injuries wenger could but did nt — or with the tactical variety to prevent losses like at anfield and stamford bridge, or making the change of tactic when we just cant score against teams like leicester.

A recent loss to rivals Manchester United alongside dropping out of the Champions League have led to some calling for the Northern Irishman to be removed from his position at the club.

The day after Houston's 48 - 44 loss to Memphis, it was announced that Tom Herman accepted a head coaching position at Texas.

And in 2012, despite youth at the quarterback position, despite the loss of former Heisman finalist LaMichael James, Chip Kelly truly might have his best, most well - rounded, most dangerous team yet.

The loss to West Ham United followed by the 3 - 1 defeat to Manchester United at the weekend has led to increased speculation that Brendan Rodgers could be facing the sack already, with reports continuing to link Jurgen Klopp with the position.

He played CB in that game and was actually viewed in the long run as a CB from by the club though he's a dm.He plays CB just as well as he plays DM because of his solidity and reading of the game.Just look at the position he played for Arsenal in the senior team.He's gonna be a big loss but the funny thing is people expect his name to fade away.

You must have seen Dein arrive at AFC and the improvements, the ambition... the loss of Dein, the old board make a pact not to sell their shares, seen Gazidis hired before Silent Stan bought majority share position, the old board sell for a nice payday and going against their words, AFC asset value increase year after year while Silent Stan is happy to let that continue and media focuses on Wenger.

Despite the loss of a decent tackle in Austin Teitsma, it does seem that Phair will have pieces up front: JUCO transfer Jihad Ward was a success at end, and Dawuane Smoot proved decent in handling the hybrid roles of the LEO position.

I think the most frustrating thing about the loss yesterday is that, they knew Chelsea dropped points the day before, and yet they still came out with a lacklustre game style, Especailly Cazorla, Ozil and Ramsey trying to accommodate the AMF position at the same time.

«Adding a third tight end comes back to the loss of Devin Asaisi from the 2016 class as a transfer to UCLA and the fact that Michigan did not sign a player at the position in 2017.