If the individual has a short position, his holding period return is.

It would take 57 days to cover the short position in its stock.

Indeed, he has added to and covered part of the short position at various times over recent months.

And he is maintaining a short position on the stock.

He would not confirm whether either short position was still open.

The company had a short position, or a bet that prices would fall.

That was a fraction of the true short position in the stock.

A person who did that would have to pay taxes on the profit, if any, from the short position.

That led him to close out his short positions and buy shares.

Therefore, only margin accounts can be used to open a short position.

The huge short position is equivalent to 30 percent of the company's shares.

The fund is required to set aside the money needed to buy back the short positions.

The principal reason for borrowing a security is to cover a short position.

A short position provides a way to profit from a price decline.

Short positions on the American exchange also declined a month ago, down 1.8 percent.

His account strategy contains an average of 20% short positions.

A short position results when a firm sells securities it does not own.

The existence of the short position has become one argument for the bulls.

After that, you can put the short position back on, only to remove it again by the following Jan. 30.

He has spent the last few weeks buying stocks to cover some 20 short positions.

Combined long and short positions can even out performance if the market is having a lot of swings.

It cannot be used to cover your short position.

Ordinarily, the larger the short position, the more potential buying there will be.

Traders said market participants who tried to cover short positions ahead of the data were hurt.

The absence of a large short position also means that there is little price pressure, up or down."