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Short Selling – Two Perspectives

Shortselling

Ever wondered how shorting a stock works? A couple of handy tutorials help explain this often misunderstood approach to trading:

The first is a bit of a technical explanation prepared by Interactive Brokers on how a short sale works:

http://www.interactivebrokers.com/images/flash/shortsale/index.html

 

A simpler version prepared by the Khan Academy can be found here:

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