short position

English

Noun

short position (plural short positions)

  1. (finance) A financial instrument bought with the expectation that it will decrease in value.
    Coordinate term: long position

Further reading
  • short (finance) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • John Smullen; Nicholas Hand, editors (2005), “short position”, in A Dictionary of Finance and Banking, 3rd edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 375
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