sell short

Example Sentences

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Members were still free to sell short any Union securities they wished, though.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026

To duplicate that return yourself, you would need to buy the highest-momentum stocks and simultaneously sell short an equal dollar amount of the biggest losers.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 22, 2026

So Wolfe Research’s chief investment strategist Chris Senyek screened for stocks to sell short, or bet against.

From Barron's • Oct. 24, 2025

The first way that shorts benefit from stock watering is that millions of new shares become available to sell short.

From Salon • Apr. 17, 2024

The various floors, or tranches, of subprime mortgage bonds all had one thing in common: The bonds were impossible to sell short.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis