Short selling means selling stocks you've borrowed, aiming to buy them back later for less money. Traders often look to short-selling as a means of profiting on short-term declines in shares.

Naked short selling involves selling securities without first borrowing them or ensuring they can be borrowed, leading to ...

Short selling is a way to invest so that you profit when the price of a security — such as a stock — declines. It’s considered an advanced strategy that is probably best left to experienced ...

Short selling involves borrowing shares of a stock and immediately selling them with the goal of buying them back later at a lower price. Instead of profiting on a rising stock price, short ...

Short selling is one of those features of the market that companies tend to dislike, but for arbitrageurs and market makers, it is an absolute necessity. The fear for companies and investors is ...

Short selling is guesswork, with a lot more losses than wins. Annex Wealth Management’s Dave Spano and Brian Jacobsen discuss how short selling works and why it’s not usually appropriate for ...

The brokerage firm argues that the $95 million in damages it incurred from an advisor’s strategy to short-sell Tesla is ...