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Explain Like I am 5: Key differences between long and short positions

Updated: 10 Jan 2022, 09:46 AM IST
TL;DR.

A trader determines his strategy of investing in stocks based on his expectation from the stocks to rise or to fall. If he expects the stock to rise, he prefers to go long. Else, he would want to go short. Let us decode what it means

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What are long and short positions. 
First Published: 10 Jan 2022, 09:46 AM IST