What is Short?
Being short means you have a position that benefits if the price goes down. A trader usually goes short by selling a borrowed asset, planning to buy it back later at a lower price. A short position loses money when the price rises, and because a price can keep rising, the potential loss on a short is not capped the way a simple long is.
Why Short matters
Shorting is how traders express a falling view, and its open-ended loss profile makes risk control essential.
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