Sentences with phrase «take on a short position»

It is also possible to take on a short position and speculate on the price of the underlying futures contract going down and offsetting the position by buying back the exact same contract on the same exchange with the hope of making a profit on the change in price.

Not exact matches

While Buffett told CNBC he would not take a short position on bitcoin futures, JPMorgan Chase CEO and chairman Jamie Dimon said he regrets calling bitcoin a «fraud» in September.

That being said, in my position it would be easy to take a Jack Barker philosophy on business, one that is constantly pressing engineering and manufacturing to compromise long - term aspirations for short - term gain.

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.

Short - seller Jim Chanos told CNBC on Thursday that he's taken positions against health - care stocks Envision Healthcare and Mednax.

Short - seller Jim Chanos announced on CNBC on Wednesday a new short position in liquefied natural gas player Cheniere Energy, a company in which billionaire hedge fund manager Carl Icahn has recently taken a sizable long posiShort - seller Jim Chanos announced on CNBC on Wednesday a new short position in liquefied natural gas player Cheniere Energy, a company in which billionaire hedge fund manager Carl Icahn has recently taken a sizable long posishort position in liquefied natural gas player Cheniere Energy, a company in which billionaire hedge fund manager Carl Icahn has recently taken a sizable long position.

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.

Jim Chanos announces on CNBC a new short position in Cheniere Energy, a company in which Carl Icahn had recently taken a sizable long position.

It's the largest hedge ETF, with $ 1.1 billion in assets; it melds numerous strategies that include taking both long and short positions on U.S. stocks and bonds and emerging markets.

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.

Hedge - fund manager Doug Kass has taken a short position on the fast - growing online retailer, saying government antitrust concerns will erode its value.

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.

In the short term, for given risk - adjusted profitability targets, this implies that dealers will be less willing to take on large positions and the associated inventory risks.

BLK takes a long position on stocks it thinks will appreciate, and short positions on equities it expects to lose value.

«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.»

In this case, buying EEV was the same as taking a bearish position on the MSCI Emerging Markets Index (note that «short ETFs» are designed to be used only for quick, short - term trades).

The long - term setups are unchanged in both the BTC and the USD pairs, and we still advise short - term traders to wait for a move before taking on new positions, while long - term investor could still accumulate XRP inside the consolidation patterns.

In short, we know exactly what would need to happen in order to take on a more constructive position, exactly how we would go about scaling into that position, and exactly what would have to happen to reverse the signal.

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.

They focus on a conventional momentum strategy that each month takes equally weighted long positions in past winners (top eight industries) and short positions in past losers (bottom eight industries) based on cumulative returns from 12 months ago to one month ago (12 - 2).

In addition, investors take long and short positions in futures and options on key volatility indexes.

If the world's finance communities won't let their derivative operations fail, what is to stop some trader in 2015 from taking short «hyper - leveraged» (2nd order time - sequence derivative plays don't think exist yet) positions on all the world's currencies?

[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.

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.

To estimate carry trade returns, they sort currencies each year based on associated T - bill yields and take equally weighted long (short) positions in the four currencies with the highest (lowest) yields.

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.

By pitching on short rest in Game 4, Corey Kluber positioned himself to be ready to start on short rest again in Game 7 should the team need him to take the mound.

We could cut short the gap between our current position and Antonio Conte's men should we take all three points when we take on the Saints on a latter date and Ramsey believes we can eventually catch the league leaders.

Weir returned to Everton in 2012 where he took up a coaching role but he later moved on to advance his managerial ambitions, taking up a short - lived managerial position at Sheffield United before moving into a coaching position at Brentford.

Watch our short instruction videos to learn how to switch from one position to another, put on / take off the fabric seat and turn the bouncer into a comfy children's chair.

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.

The review is short — just 8 pages — and doesn't take a position on whether the Common Core is right for Indiana.

Minor cosmetic repairs were required in the pits and Gavin and Milner led the way on occasion as fuel and tyre strategies played out in the continuously fluctuating conditions, until a decision was taken to cut the race short as the # 4 Chevrolet Corvette C7.R held third position in the ultra-competitive GTLM division.

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).

It typically takes a lot less capital for my short put positions (on margin) compared to holding stock.

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.

To expand on the comment made by @NateEldredge, you're looking to take a short position.

Long / short equity funds take a hedged net long position on stocks, which reduces volatility.

These funds typically take a short position on the U.S. dollar like the PowerShares DB US Dollar Index Bearish Fund (UDN), profiting from a fall in the value of the dollar relative to other currencies.

It will take short positions primarily in domestic equity securities of companies (i) listed on the S&P 500 Total Return ® Index (the «S&P 500») or (ii) that have market capitalization above $ 4 billion at the time the fund takes the short position.

They might be very specific, such as ProShares UltraShort Euro ETF (EUO), which takes short positions on the Euro.

Managed futures strategies, on the other hand, attempt to follow price trends, and they can take both long and short positions.

Swing Trading / Position Trading: This style of trading involves taking a short to mid-term view on the market and traders who swing trade will be in a trade anywhere from a few hours to several days or weeks.

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

By taking such short positions, the index seeks to mitigate the potential negative impact of rising Treasury interest rates («interest rates») on the performance of high yield bonds (conversely limiting the potential positive impact of falling interest rates).

I took a position on a fakey on the EURJPY in this video, the weekly chart was showing a trading range, the fakey was a short position near the top of the range on the daily chart.

With the unfettered ability to take on long and short positions, a day trader can stay neutral and act according to his or her current market analysis.

Long - Short Equity, or LSE, takes the EMN strategy (though they're not exact clones if we're to judge by their holdings and position sizes) and overlays a tactical equity strategy that targets an average 50 % exposure to the MSCI World Index, with the ability to adjust its exposure by + / - 20 % based largely on valuation and momentum.