The idiomatic expression
"to sell one's position" means to betray a trust or abandon a principle, belief, or cause for personal gain.
Full definition
A trader will enter in a Stop Order that will automatically
sell his position in a security when a set price is reached.
I owned the company between 2010 and 2013 during which time its dividend had been sliced by 44 % and I was happy to eventually
sell the position at a slight profit.
I can only imagine what my shares and yield on cost would be today had I
not sold my position back then.
In closing my question is: is it correct to
sell a position if unsure then open a buy stop if you're in a long to then capture trend continuation?
If the ETF closes the month below its 10 month simple moving average,
then sell the position and hold the proceeds in cash.
The model that reached
top selling positions after its recent launch, was tested in front and side crash configurations.
For clients in discretionary accounts, portfolio managers can act on available information quickly and efficiently,
selling the position out of all their accounts in a single, cost - effective transaction.
When we
do sell a position and raise cash levels it is not because we think a pull back or a crash is imminent.
It allows you to borrow against your securities and increases your purchasing power but when your portfolio drops, you will then need to cover for those borrowed funds or
sell your positions immediately.
Now lets take that same example, and say that the market continues moving downward in the direction of our trader's
remaining sell position.
My poor designs could be fixed by more experienced coworkers; there's no recourse if you make a poor stock choice
beyond selling your position and limiting your losses.
You may be able to
sell your position in a bond mutual fund or bond index fund fairly quickly, which is one of the reason bond funds are popular.
Selling a position when the price is around 0.5 % to 1.0 % above the stop price is being reactive... and that's NOT how successful traders make money.
Congress has no reason to
sell its position as part of an IPO to recapitalize both companies seeing as all profits flow to the Treasury, reducing the deficit.
Over the last two months, the stock declined, but for now
open sell positions are not that high, just around 4.87 %.
We resisted
selling our positions until now because the fundamentals — things like earnings, employment, and industrial activity ---LSB-...]
Along with that, the new partnership established a $ 7.95 penalty for
selling positions within 30 days for individual investors, and 60 days for advisors.
I'll close with a recent quote by Paul T. McDermott, President and CEO of Washington REIT, who
recently sold their position in a major DC building to move assets into Arlington.
Those traders could
start selling those positions if worldwide oil demand disappoints, OPEC members start cheating or U.S. output rises too sharply.
We
resisted selling our positions until now because the fundamentals — things like earnings, employment, and industrial activity — have all been strong.
I guess the DOL regulators weren't around after the 2008 crash, when many advisors — both commission and fee - based — prevented client
from selling their positions at the bottom of the market.
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.
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).
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.