Thursday, April 5, 2012

WSJ: What Short Interest Means to You

By SIMON CONSTABLE

Short sellers do things differently. Unlike most investors, they want to see the securities they've selected decline in value.

Specifically, they borrow stocks or bonds and sell them, hoping to buy them back later at a lower price for profit. The short-seller maxim is "sell high, buy low." See the original here.

Photo by Ibrahim Boran on Unsplash

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