Comments on: What is “Short Selling”?

By: joe

joe — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:33:47 +0000

thanks. now i get it. but why does the broker let himself be manipulated like that?

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Thu, 25 Sep 2008 05:25:58 +0000

[...] of mine who works in finance — I’ll call him “Senor Gumbo” — to my earlier post in which I explained “longing” and “shorting” to see if I’d explained it properly. He said that I’d nailed it, but he also said that [...]

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:10:05 +0000

Selling short is depicted in that classic film, Trading Places.

By: Winston

Winston — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:51:00 +0000

The English idiom “to sell something/someone short” adds to the confusion, because it means “to underestimate the value of something/someone”,

Not really. You say “Don’t sell yourself short” when someone underestimates themselves because they are assigning a low value to their own ability to perform (in the future). “Selling short” in this phrase means the same as it does in the stock market — it’s the “don’t” that indicates that you think the person is underestimating themselves, not the “sell yourself short.”

By: bnk

bnk — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:49:04 +0000

Given my height I am always selling short.

By: terry valko

terry valko — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:19:33 +0000

Excellent, Joe. i finally understand.