Not exact matches
In a live interview, Edwards tells us she
sold out of her
position because over the next 3 to 4 quarters she doesn't see strong tailwinds for the
stock.»
Investors, Tierney reasoned, were anticipating that Ackman might have to
sell other
stocks to cash out clients who demanded their money back — and those Ackman watchers were therefore
selling their
positions in those
stocks too.
The company, which has approximately $ 30 billion in debt, saw its
stock drop to all - time lows as it dipped under $ 11 per share on Tuesday after news emerged that Ackman and his hedgefunder were
selling their entire
position of approximately 27 million shares.
This improves the in -
stock position of a fast - moving product and prevents obsolescence for one that is not
selling.
She bought Las Vegas Sands following the company's quarterly results, and also added to her
position in Zimmer Biomet after the
stock sold - off following earnings.
Those might include
selling if a
stock drops a certain percentage, not buying a
stock after it rises a certain percentage and not
selling a
position until a certain amount of time has elapsed.
For example,
selling call options against
stock positions you own can provide some downside protection and also produce a nice income stream.
I have to credit them for teaching me how to properly value
stocks, trade options,
sell stocks short, use proper
position sizing and stop losses and many other helpful strategies I never knew about previously.
Protect profits — When a
stock rises to 150 % or more of the original cost, half the
position can be
sold, with the remainder retained to participate in any further advances.
Heaps of trading platforms allow practice trades for long
positions, but i'm having trouble finding any that provide a practice account that allows short
selling penny
stocks.
As a «
sell» signal matures and becomes more confirmed by time and price, short
selling of weak
stocks also becomes part of the trading plan, but for now it is still too early to enter new short
positions for momentum swing trading.
After buying shares of Facebook
stock in December of 2013 and February of 2014 in our nightly
stock trading letter, we
sold the full
position on March 10, locking in separate price gains of 49 % AND 12 % on $ FB.
However, since most
stocks are already too extended to the downside in the near - term, it is crucial to wait for a decent bounce before initiating new short
positions (be sure to review this classic blog post for the key points of my short
selling strategy).
Since generating the «
sell» signal on April 4, 2012 that got us out of our long
positions near the top, right before
stocks entered into a correction, we have subsequently been
positioned in a combination of cash and short
positions or inverse ETFs.
On a separate note, here is a brief update on the open
stock and ETF
positions presently in our model swing trading portfolio: We
sold a partial
position of Celldex Therapeutics ($ CLDX) for an 18 % gain on April 25, but remain long about half the original shares (more on our $ CLDX entry here).
Once you decide to
sell your
position, you are given a 1099 just like with regular dividend growth
stocks.
The event - driven manager would likely take a long
position in the target company's
stock and
sell short the acquiring company's shares.
If you are carrying the
position over a longer time period and there is an overnight gap to the downside, there is no telling where you might
sell your
stock.
Given the absence of a public trading market of our common
stock, and in accordance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Accounting and Valuation Guide, Valuation of Privately - Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, our board of directors exercised reasonable judgment and considered numerous and subjective factors to determine the best estimate of fair value of our common
stock, including independent third - party valuations of our common
stock; the prices at which we
sold shares of our convertible preferred
stock to outside investors in arms - length transactions; the rights, preferences, and privileges of our convertible preferred
stock relative to those of our common
stock; our operating results, financial
position, and capital resources; current business conditions and projections; the lack of marketability of our common
stock; the hiring of key personnel and the experience of our management; the introduction of new products; our stage of development and material risks related to our business; the fact that the option grants involve illiquid securities in a private company; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic outlook.
In recent months, top fund managers including Jeffrey Gundlach and Paul Tudor Jones have been buying put options on the SPDR S&P 500 ETF to
position themselves for what could become a big
sell - off in the
stock market.
As a
stock approaches its
sell target, we usually reduce our
position so we can purchase issues that we believe are more undervalued.
If the
stock price remains stable I will not
sell the entire
position due to the attractive dividend growth rate but instead prune it back by
selling some shares to capitalize on the gains and reinvest the proceeds to help with income and diversification.
This is one of the major reasons you don't see wealthy people or successful portfolio managers
selling positions just to shift into a
stock that might be a little bit of a better deal.
When a
stock or ETF is forming a bull flag chart pattern and then gaps down sharply, it has the effect of washing out the «weak hands» who
sell a
position that the first hint of trouble.
Many traders have a price target to which they believe the
stock will rise when they buy
stock to open a long
position, and place a
sell limit order at or near this target.
After management made considerable progress remedying those issues, the
stock approached our new, lower
sell target, and we exited the
position.
Selling your winning
stocks too quickly, while holding onto your losing
positions too long, is an extremely common mistake among newer traders and investors.
Because our
stock and ETF trading newsletter, The Wagner Daily, is fully designed to be an end of day
stock picking service, the rules our trading system dictate that we automatically
sell our open
positions whenever they hit their price target or protective stop loss (whichever comes first).
Just like traditional
stock market securities trading, buy
positions allow investors to profit from a rising
stock market while a
sell order enables investors to benefit from a declining
stock market.
Portfolio insurance products were algorithm - based products created to protect investors from falling markets by
selling «ever - increasing numbers of futures contracts,» the New York Times explained in 2012, because «the short
position in futures contracts would then offset the losses caused by falls in the
stocks they owned.»
If we are in a bear market and the investor is not opposed to short
selling, we can look for
stocks that will likely perform the worst, therefore making a nice profit on the short
positions as prices fall.
As subscribers to our
stock picking newsletter for swing traders will note in the «open
positions» section of today's report, we plan to
sell and take profits on most of our winning
positions on today's open, just to lock in some of the solid gains we've been riding over the past few weeks.
Instead, we simply focus on
selling long
positions into strength of each major upward thrust, then reverting back to cash while waiting for
stocks to pull back and set up for the next low - risk buying opportunities.
That entails buying and
selling stocks according to how they are performing, including drawing a line in the sand that dictates when to exit losing
positions.
Open
selling positions percentage (2.74 %) shows the investors are not very much interested in
selling Dicerna, while many bears locked in their profits Friday, when the
stocks rose as much as by 17.86 %.
This means we view normal, short - term pullbacks in uptrending
stocks as buying opportunities to enter new long
positions; our trend - following system does NOT allow us to
sell short quick pullbacks of strong
stocks and ETFs in an uptrending
stock market.
Clients holding
Stock positions will receive rights and can choose to
sell the rights or subscribe to new
Stocks.
Stuck owning a tiny 0.2 %
position, the Fund
sold the
stock for a small gain.
If a trader
sells short a
stock because the company has stated that they expect demand for their key product to decline in the years ahead, then the trader may need to give the
position some room to fluctuate.
The former can make sense, Weckbach notes, when one of their multiple accounts includes an illiquid investment (such as a
stock position in a small company) that's not easily
sold in order to raise funds for an RMD.
Dell was using options as a way to be «long» its own
stock without shelling out much cash (buying a call and
selling a put at the same strike price is an «equivalent long
position», as option traders would say).
I definitely would not start a
position here but I am not going to rush out and
sell the
stock that I do own.
You may have amassed significant shares in your employer's company,
sold a business in return for company shares, or hold a portfolio with concentrated
stock positions.
For example, an investor who fell victim to the dotcom bubble or 2008 financial crisis and
sold their equity
positions at the absolute worst time would feel anticipated regret if they were to think about re-investing in the
stock market again.
The latest chapter in the continued tug of war over Tesla's
stock price has Goldman Sachs reinforcing its
sell position on TSLA, setting a...
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an wenger is in denial about ozil - give him a run in his favoured
position — if it flops -
sell him — his
stock is still very high.
Those who were caught the wrong way after short
selling the market covered their
positions after wholesale beef prices, or the cutout, on Wednesday morning rose above $ 190 per cwt, a level which suggest retailers are
stocking up on beef for grilling season specials.
FXE (CurrencyShares Euro Trust) remains in a strong downtrend /
sell signal but this portfolio is not shorting
stocks so it remains in cash on the FXE
position.
I
sell positions when the original reason for the purchase no longer exists or when my research is telling me that
stocks are overvalued.