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When do you sell short?
Can anyone explain to me rather effectively when and how to sell short? I don't know how to read charts (graphs), I don't know when to sell short. I just need some idea on when and how to sell short. . .
you short if you think the security will decline in value.
Wilhelmina H
I can't explain charts. I can tell you that you should sell short when you are confident that a stock price is going to decline.
I made a pile by shorting Crocs stock from about $40 down to below $1! I shorted that stock because I knew they only had a single product and that it was a fad.
Don't take too much investing advice from the internet, and good luck!
Common Sense
It can take years to understand and work effectively with "Technical Analysis" (ie, Charts). Certainly not something that can be quickly answered in this format.
Additional word of caution: Unless you have extensive skill in money management techniques..... learning to read/understand charts will not be enough to be consistantly profitable.
Ken D
You sell short when you feel a specific stock (or the entire market) is going to drop. Sell using the stock symbol or use spydrs for the entire market.
wildbirdie
Sell short when the stock is making new lows. Only a fool wil short something that's going up.
picador
When you have insider knowledge of which nobody can accuse you.
LG
As everyone has stated before me, you sell short when you expect the stock to drop in price.
Keep in mind that you are selling something you dont have you're pretty much borrowing the stock from someone who has it and later have to pay back the shares (dangerous). Lets say company ABC trading right now @ 10 and you sell short 1000 shares . you get 10,000 minus commission. Expecting the stock to drop in price. But if you are wrong and the stock goes to $20. You have to buy those 1000 shares @ 20 or 20k, you just lost 10k
Many brokerages wont let you sell short unless you have margin, option trading and a certain networth and investment experience
Karin
You sell short when you expect the market to go down. But careful it is dangerous.
john P
You sell short when you think ( analyzed) that a stock will go down.
Odds are that the market is in the process of bottoming out. Selling short at the bottom of a market is dumb. The time to sell short was one year ago.
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