The situation of having sold short prior to the short contract's maturing. Opposite of a long position.

Occurs when a person sells stocks he or she does not yet own. Shares must be borrowed, before the sale, to make "good delivery" to the buyer. Eventually, the shares must be bought back to cl [..]

A transaction by a person who believes a security will decline and sells it, though the person does not own any. For instance: You instruct your broker to sell short 100 shares of XYZ. Your broker bor [..]

A trading position, which increases in value as market prices fall. The term can refer to an individual transaction; for example a trader who has sold coffee futures is said to have a short position in coffee. Or it can refer to a traders' entire book; a trader may have made a number of purchases and sales in a number of markets but if the val [..]

If you sell stock short and have not yet repurchased shares to replace the ones you borrowed, you are said to have a short position in that stock. Similarly, if you sell an options contract that commits you to meet the terms of the contract at some date in the future if the option is exercised, you have a short position in that contract.

A trading inventory position reflecting a sale by a municipal securities dealer of securities that it did not own at the time of sale. See: SHORT SALE.

Definitions (2) 1. In the case of a futures contract, the promise to sell a certain quantity of a good at a particular price in the future. opposite of a long position.

A position in which a particular asset (such as a spot or forward currency) has been sold.

When an investor stands to benefit from a fall in the price of an asset, they are said to have a 'short position' or simply to be 'short the asset'. Being short an asset is general [..]

Stock options or futures contracts sold short and not covered as of a particular date. On the NYSE, a tabulation is issued once a month listing all issues on the exchange in which there was a short position of 5,000 or more shares or in which the short position had changed by 2,000 or more shares in the preceding month. Short position also means th [..]

A short position, the opposite of long position, represents either the selling of a borrowed asset, the writing of an option, or selling a futures position; when the asset's value increases, the [..]

Occurs when a person sells stocks he or she does not yet own. Shares must be borrowed, before the sale, to make "good delivery" to the buyer. Eventually, the shares must be bought back to cl [..]

A technique used by investors who believe the price of a stock is going down, selling stocks he does not yet own then later buying it back at a lower price to close out the transaction.

A greater outflow than inflow of a given currency. In foreign exchange operations, short positions arise when the amount of a given currency sold is greater than the amount purchased.

The situation of an investor who has sold securities or commodities without actually owning them, on the expectation that the price of these securities or commodities will fall. A short position must [..]

A short position in an investment indicates a position in an investment that would increase in value as the underlying asset(s) decrease in value. Opposite of a long position.

Stock options or futures contracts sold short and not covered as of a particular date. On the NYSE, a tabulation is issued once a month listing all issues on the exchange in which there was a short po [..]

A position in which the investor has sold securities which he/she does not own.

An investors position where the number of contracts sold exce eds the number of contracts bought. The person is a net seller.

Investors sell securities in the hope that they will decrease in value and can be bought at a later date for profit.

Name given to the overdraft Banco de México induced in banks' aggregate current accounts with the central bank between 1995 and 2008 under the accumulated balances regime (September 1995 – April [..]

Occurs when a person sells stocks he or she does not yet own. Shares must be borrowed, before the sale, to make "good delivery" to the buyer. Eventually, the shares must be bought back to cl [..]

When you sell a financial asset that you do not own you are going "short". You hope to benefit from any fall in the price of that asset.