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, ...

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 ...

Unlike South Korea's previous short-selling bans, the latest ban was largely driven by regulatory reasons and geared at protecting retail investors, industry expert said. The practice of short-selling ...

NEW YORK/LONDON/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - New moves to curb short-selling in some countries have set the stage for a renewed battle between free market advocates and authorities aiming to check investors ...

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 ...

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 ...