sell short
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To duplicate that return yourself, you would need to buy the highest-momentum stocks and simultaneously sell short an equal dollar amount of the biggest losers.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 22, 2026
So Wolfe Research’s chief investment strategist Chris Senyek screened for stocks to sell short, or bet against.
From Barron's • Oct. 24, 2025
We underestimate how pleasant the exchange will be—for us and for our counterpart—and sell short our conversational chops.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025
The first way that shorts benefit from stock watering is that millions of new shares become available to sell short.
From Salon • Apr. 17, 2024
The various floors, or tranches, of subprime mortgage bonds all had one thing in common: The bonds were impossible to sell short.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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