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, ...

A net short position means an investor has more short than long positions in their portfolio. Get a clear definition and an ...

One manager targets financials, real estate and solar for shorts A new hedge fund is being launched to short stocks. The stock market is registering one record high after another, unconcernedly ...

If he’d waited a few years, the strategy might have paid off. Instead, a UBS broker’s strategy of short selling Tesla stock could cost the brokerage firm $95 million. That strategy, which the clients ...

Short-sellers have been blamed for the Great Crash of 1929 (turns out unfairly) and all kinds of market manipulation in the years since. But, as investors learned in the three-year bear market, it may ...

Takeover bids and activist intervention are shoring up shares of some Japanese companies seen as having weak fundamentals, making it harder for investors to succeed in short-selling strategies. Hints ...

'In the 10-plus years now that I've been doing this, from an operational perspective, this is the most difficult time to be a short seller,' one fund manager told MarketWatch Short sellers are having ...