What is Short

Hi,

Can somebody help regarding what is short and if there is a tutorial on the same in this forum with example.

Regards,
Paul

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/short.asp

Short (trade)= A Trade in which SELL order is placed before a BUY order. (assuming one has open position).
Long (trade) = A Trade in which BUY order is placed before a SELL order.

To make profit from a trade, SELL price always have to be greater then BUY price.

Happy Trading

GentleMen,

I would want to add on to that question!!!

In normal buy if i buy today i can chose to sell the share any other trading day it could be even after a year and so...

but in short do i have to recover the same day of selling or i can buy the short shares any other day just as we do in long

Thanking you
Right_Then

right_then
while shorting {selling } in cash segment ,one is required to close the position{buy} in the same day.even if not done manually most brokers place the orders at market price during the last half hour.

in Futures segment one is allowed to hold on to shorted position for more than a day ,generally until expiry

hope this helps

Sir Mr.ArvindhBadri

Thanks A Lot it cleared the fog

RIGHT_THEN

no sir and mr. please ....we all are friends here ...

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