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Short selling in plain English.

Selling borrowed shares now and buying them back later to return them. It gains when the price falls — and its loss has no ceiling if the price rises.

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Trading basics

29 terms in this track

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Stocks: going long and selling short

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100 of 129

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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: Vente à découvert

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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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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