Glossary · Trading basics · B
Borrow fee in plain English.
The yearly rate a broker charges to lend shares for a short sale, accrued every day the short is open. Hard-to-borrow stocks can cost 20% a year or more.
Track
Trading basics
29 terms in this track
Taught in
Stocks: going long and selling short
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Filed under B
Connections
8
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The idea, in context
How to read the picture above and where the Academy teaches it.
Reading the illustration
Price as candles, smoothed by an average (gold) and wrapped in a band — how chart signals are read.
In French: Frais d’emprunt
Where it’s taught
Trading basics
Stocks: going long and selling short
“Stocks: going long and selling short” introduces this term with worked examples, a quiz and the trades around it. The Academy is part of the YieldCove membership.
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Connected terms
8 terms around this one — the words its definition uses, its lesson siblings and the terms that build on it.
- Used in this definition
- Same lesson
- Builds on this term
- Same track
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Where to go next
Understand it, try it with real numbers, then track it for free.
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