short position
English
Noun
short position (plural short positions)
- (finance) A financial instrument bought with the expectation that it will decrease in value.
- Coordinate term: long position
Further reading
- short (finance) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- John Smullen; Nicholas Hand, editors (2005), “short position”, in A Dictionary of Finance and Banking, 3rd edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 375