Having a long position in a stock means that you own shares and will make money as the stock price rises. Having a short position in a stock means that you are betting on the decline of the stock’s ...

A long position is what you take when you expect a security to rise in value. Someone who has taken a long position in a given security has purchased that security, or taken a long position with a ...

Short selling is widely considered riskier than traditional investing. Unlike a simple stock purchase, where losses are ...

U.S. activist investor Elliott Investment Management has taken a short position against British oil major Shell as part of a global hedging program. The move, which was first reported by British ...