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The
term used to describe the selling of a security, commodity, or currency.
The investor's sales exceed holdings because they believe the price
will fall.
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For example, an investor who borrows shares of stock from a broker-dealer and sells them on the open market is said to have a short position in the stock. The person opposite to the long.
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