Short selling is a way to invest so that you profit when the price of a security — such as a stock — declines. It’s considered an advanced strategy that is probably best left to experienced investors ...

Learn how 'Buy to Cover' transactions work to close short positions, buy back borrowed shares, and manage margin trades ...

S3 Partner’s Ihor Dusaniwksy describes what short-selling numbers both long and short investors should pay attention to, and why you can’t really have short interest that’s more than 100% of a stock’s ...

A synthetic short strategy allows investors to simulate risk/reward Savvy traders know that selling a stock short isn't without its downsides. Namely, you have to borrow shares from a broker. However, ...

Short selling in the U.S. stock market hit $1 trillion during the first six months of 2023, after climbing by $138 billion since the start of the year. But the bulk of the increase — some $110 billion ...

Short selling is an investment technique that generates profits when shares of a stock go down rather than up. In most cases, shorting stocks is best left to the professionals. In fact, it’s mostly ...

Short selling has nothing to do with summer wear or workout gear. It's a common but controversial way of trading in financial markets. Let's say an investor decides a company's share price is ...

During the heyday of technical analysis from 1960 to 1985, some of the best indicators of market direction were the odd lot and public short selling ratios. High levels of short selling were positive ...

GameStop was a good candidate for a short—that is, a bet that its stock price would decline (a process I’ll describe shortly). And, indeed, if you had shorted GameStop a while back, you could have ...

Short squeezes are nothing new. But recent action in some heavily shorted stocks over the past weeks has brought the topic to the fore again. One thing many people ask is: How can a stock be more than ...