Sentences with phrase «which takes short positions»

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

Not exact matches

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.

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.

«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.»

Many futures traders prefer to be long - only traders, which means that they may not entertain the idea of taking a short position.

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.

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

These join the two - year - old iShares Broad Commodity Index Fund (CBR), which uses a managed futures strategy without the short positions: the fund will either take a long position in a given commodity or none at all.

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

It is definitely cheaper and simpler than taking many individual short positions or executing complex derivative strategies (which sophisticated investors generally use to protect themselves in a bear phase).

The phrasing generally prohibits you short selling, or taking a position which is equivalent or gives you similar exposure, so synthetic shorts would be disallowed, as would any derivative position which benefits you if the company's stock drops.

On the other hand, if you sell the base currency and buy the quote currency, where you expect the base currency to fall in value which you can buy back at a lower price, you are said to take a «short» position.

The investing strategy being referred to here is a so - called «long - short» approach in which long and short positions are taken in various stocks to try to hedge exposure to the broader market which makes gains more associated with solid stocking picking.

I have other short positions in my portfolio, so for long bond yields to continue to tank, it would probably take some sort of exogenous event or major market malaise, which would translate into gains elsewhere in the portfolio.

That means value investing has had to get more sophisticated — and, one might argue, riskier — by taking more short positions, as Einhorn does, which can bankrupt someone who shorted a stock at $ 20 and has to cover that short at $ 100; by piling on more debt; or by investing in situations where a total loss is possible.

Hedge fund: Private investment partnership (for US investors) or an offshore investment corporation (for non US tax exempt investors) in which the general partner has made substantial personal investment, and whose offering memorandum allows for the fund to take both long and short positions, use leverage and derivatives, and invest in many markets.

Once you reach Gare du Nord, you can then take a short 5 minute journey via metro line 4 to Strasbourg - Saint - Denis metro station, which is positioned at the eastern edge of La Bourse district and will link you to the rest of the area's metro stations.

He took people and their actions with everyday objects in unusual positions, which they would only be able to hold for a short period of time, and locked them into position using photography.

I am in an interesting position of being in the geology field where people know that the earth has a very long history and take it in stride, and also having been trained in geography, which takes a more short - term social approach.

This will entitle the customers of CME to take up both long and short positions which do not exceed the collateral.