«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.»
Not exact matches
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.»
Short - seller Jim Chanos told CNBC on Thursday that he's
taken positions against health - care stocks Envision Healthcare and Mednax.
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?»
Bring in a DM who will
take over Arteta / compete for the
position from January but not necessarily be our defensive midfielder we all desire, instead bring in a swift ball passer to get the ball from defence to our attractive midfielders in a
short enough time to avoid the high pressing we currently see
against us, if he tackles than that's a great addition.
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.
The funds seek to hedge
against the negative impact of currency risk by
taking short positions in currency forward contracts.
It is also possible that only one of the offers is
taken, and you are stuck with a long or
short position that moves
against you.
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
IGHG and HYHG seek to hedge investment grade bonds and high yield bonds, respectively,
against the negative impact of rising rates by
taking short positions in Treasury futures.
IGHG seeks to hedge investment grade bonds
against the negative impact of rising rates by
taking short positions in Treasury futures.
HYHG seeks to hedge high yield bonds
against the potential negative impact of rising Treasury interest rates by
taking short positions in U.S. Treasury futures.
A fund that is designed to hedge away market risk by
taking hedging or
short positions against long
positions in an attempt to generate alpha or excess return without market risk
By
taking a
short position in the E-Mini NASDAQ futures market, and offsetting sector - specific exposure, a market participant can protect
against short - term downside risk and offset potential declines around specific economic events.
Presently traders can not
take up a
short position against bitcoins thus increasing its volatility.
A new trading platform, BTC.sx, is offering investors the chance to
take short and long
positions on future bitcoin price movements
against the...
A new trading platform, BTC.sx, is offering investors the chance to
take short and long
positions on future bitcoin price movements
against the dollar.
He reentered the hedge fund business by founding Pershing Square in 2003 and
taking a new
short position against MBIA, purchasing credit default swaps that would rise in price if his predictions came true.