Short selling is an investment technique that generates profits when shares of a stock go down rather than up. In most cases, shorting stocks is best left to the professionals. It’s mostly ...

While many are familiar with buying stocks in hopes of profiting, the strategies for benefiting from price declines are often less understood. Two powerful tools in the bearish (pessimistic) ...

A synthetic short strategy allows investors to simulate risk/reward Savvy traders know that selling a stock short isn't without its downsides. Namely, you have to borrow shares from a broker. However, ...

Here are the TSX stocks seeing some of the highest short selling – and why that matters for long-term investors. Short selling is the reverse of buying—investors borrow and sell shares hoping to ...

SEOUL/HONG KONG Jan 27 (Reuters) - South Korean mom-and-pop investors who have borrowed a record $63 billion to bet on soaring stocks will face a key test soon as authorities move to lift a ban on ...

Short selling is one of those topics that often gets misunderstood by newer investors. When investors hear that a TSX stock is seeing a lot of short selling or has a high short interest, the instinct ...

The environment for short sellers on Wall Street has grown tougher, leading many prominent figures to scale back or exit. Jim Chanos, famous for predicting Enron’s collapse, converted his hedge fund ...