define: trading shorts and longs?
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All other contracts \n\nNo\n\n End of the third business day prior to the First Position Day (longs) or Last Trading Day (shorts) \n\n\nhttp://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/trading/marginRequirements/physicalDeliveryLiquidationRules.php?ib_entity=llc
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A fund that can sell stocks short. (Mutual funds cannot do it)
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A "long" three yards is actually longer than a "short" three. "Long three" is used when the distance needed is slightly over three yards, but less than four.\n\nA "short" three yards is if the distance needed is almost three yards exactly, or perhaps even slightly less.
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A "Short Set", as mentioned in the song simply means a short sleeved shirt and a matching pair of shorts. Summer-time casual wear.
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shorts and a tee shirt.
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FTSE = (i think) Financial Times Stock Exchange\nNASDAQ = National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations\n\nhope this helps dude!
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hedging, in commerce, method by which traders use two counterbalancing investment strategies so as to minimize any losses caused by price fluctuations. It is generally used by traders on the commodities market. Typically, hedging involves a trader contracting to buy or sell one particular good at the time of the contract and also to buy or sell the same (or similar) commodity at a later date. In a simple example, a miller may buy wheat that is to be converted into flour. At the same time, the miller will contract to sell an equal amount of wheat, which the miller does not presently own, to another trader. The miller agrees to deliver the second lot of wheat at the time the flour is ready for market and at the price current at the time of the agreement. If the price of wheat declines during the period between the miller's purchase of the grain and the flour's entrance onto the market, there will also be a resulting drop in the price of flour. That loss must be sustained by the miller. However, since the miller has a contract to sell wheat at the older, higher price, the miller makes up for this loss on the flour sale by the gain on the wheat sale. Hedging is also employed by stock and bond traders, export-import traders, and some manufacturers. See also hedge fund.
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It is an oversophisticated way of saying the stock is a buy.  The term comes from the concept of portfolio allocation theory, which in general states that a diversified portfolio will in the long run outperform a non-diversified portfolio.  So in theoy in your portfolio you should have a little of this and a little of that.  The overweight concept is that if you have a little more of this than that, you will improve your portfolio return.  \n\nKind of stupid is my opinion of the term. If you overweight the stock, you are no longer as diversified. Oh well it is just a theory anyway.
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Although the question is not entirely clear, I'll take a stab at it.\n\nShares typically mean shares of stock in a specific company, e.g. shares of stock in Microsoft.\n\nFunds typically refers to Mutual Funds.  Mutual Funds (of the equity variety) own shares of stock in many companies, thus diversifying risk for the investor.  An investor in a mutual funds, in essence, owns a pro rata share of all the stocks that the mutual fund owns.
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This is the ultimate goal of a short seller.  Remember, when you short a stock you really don't have a position.  You are borrowing shares that belong to someone else and then selling them.  If the stock goes to zero, you keep the proceeds from the sale and then you return the worthless piece of paper.
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Don't know if this helps, but margin trading refers to the practice of borrowing money from your broker (by opening a margin account) and using the borrowed money to buy stock.\n\nI'm not really sure what "margin plus" trading refers to, or how it is different.
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Short tern debt investments usually refer to investments of less than one year to maturity. Not sure what you mean by when they are expected to be sold but debt trades in the secondary market everyday. Most of it is over the counter so you won't see it in the paper. If you are interested in trading call your broker.
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WHO WEARS SHORT SHORTS
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1. The total number of options and/or futures contracts that are not closed or delivered on a particular day.\n\n2. The number of buy market orders before the stock market opens.
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It means submitting several trades to the broker to be carried out at the same time (ie: buy the index, sell technology, buy VOD, hedge below a certain price level).
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Trading acconts are accounts that are directly involved with buisiness, like sales, purchase, sales return etc. Difference in trading account is the gross profit or gross loss, which means direct profit or sales from buisiness.\n\nProfit and loss accounts are accounts that are not directly involved, like travel, electricity bill etc. gross profit/loss from trading is also carried forward to Profit/loss report and the net difference in Profit and loss account is Net Profit or Net Loss.
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Derivatives are contracts to sell or buy (or trade) some underlying asset, at some future point in time.\n\nFor example, let’s say Microsoft stock is selling on the market today at a price of $100 per share.  You and I enter into a contract in which I agree to buy 10 shares of Microsoft from you in two weeks.  We further agree that the price of that sale will be $100, no matter what the market price happens to be on that day.  Two weeks go by, and on the appointed day I transfer $1,000 dollars to you, in fulfillment of the contract, and you transfer 10 shares of Microsoft to me.\n\nIf the market price on that day is still $100 per share, then neither of us has profited or lost from the transaction.  But if the price has risen, say to $105 per share, I have come out ahead, because I have purchased shares worth $1,050 for a price of only $1,000.  I can turn around and immediately sell my shares on the market, thereby making a profit of $50 from our contract.  You, on the other hand, have suffered a $50 loss by selling your shares for $1,000 when they are really worth $1,050.\n\nHowever, if the price had dropped, say to $95 per share, I would still obligated to pay $1,000 for 10 shares.  Under this scenario, I would be buying shares that are only worth $950; therefore, I would take a $50 loss, and you would come out $50 ahead.\n\nAs you can see, derivatives contracts are essentially a form of gambling.  In the above example, I am betting that the price of Microsoft will rise over the intervening two weeks, and you are betting that it will fall.\n\nDerivatives are useful, primarily in hedging risk.  For example, say I am a farmer of green beans, and historically, green beans sell for about $10 a bushel, but this price varies widely depending on growing conditions in any particular year.  I might enter into a contract with a speculator to sell all my crop at a price of $9 per bushel.  In doing so, I guard against the possibility of a steep drop in the price that would wipe me out.  On the other side, the buyer accepts the risk of a drop below $9 per bushel, but will come out ahead if the price is greater than that, because he will turn around and sell my green beans at that greater price.