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| Short Sales | In stocks, the procedure of borrowing shares and then selling them with the obligation for subsequent repurchase. A short seller believes the price of a stock will go down over time.
Common wisdom says that to be successful on the stock markets, one has only to "buy low, and sell high." A short sale is essentially the mirror image: First sell high, THEN buy low. |