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"‘Shorting' or short selling refers to the selling of a contract, a bond or stock or a commodity that is not directly owned by the seller. When practicing short selling, a seller is committed to purchase the stock or commodity previously sold... "Short Trading - The 'Long' and 'Short' of Trading I wish that people would more readily know that you can make money in the markets despite whether the markets are moving up or down. You can take a traditional, common approach to trading, that being, buy low and sell high. BUT, you can also flip-flop that method of trading and sell high then buy low and make money the same way... "Clearly, while the opportunity to profit in short stock trading is attractive, there are several risk factors of which you should be aware.

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