Short Selling

What is Naked Short Selling?

What is Short Covering

John Tabacco discusses the concept of short selling.  It represents 35% of all transactions in the market.  He discusses a few stocks that he recommends as short selling candidates. 

The video discusses the practice of short selling, specifically the ban of short selling on major financial institutions.  Short selling profits when the stock moves lower; an alternative to this strategy is to buy put options which will profit off of the same type of movement

The speakers talks about the short selling ban in financial stocks during the financial meltdown during 2008.  The short selling ban did not prevent stocks from moving lower, in fact, it actually fueled the fire.  Many hedge fund and mutual fund managers were no longer allowed to hedge their positions which led to managers se

This video is a conglomerate of many different interviews that took place on CNBC and other financial new syndication outlets talking about issues such as short selling, treasury intervention, HBOS/Lloyds merger, bailouts, TARP and many of the other me

Public Short Ratio Definition and Formula

The Public Short Ratio (PSR) is a market sentiment indicator that shows the relationship between the number of public short sales and the total number of short sales.