If you short a stock and it literally goes to zero, what happens to your position?
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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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Basically, the owner of the stock on the record date gets the whole dividend, so theoretically, you could buy the stock and sell it the next day and still get the dividend, but realize that people usually pay less for the stock after it starts trading ex-dividend by the amount of the dividend.
660859
The sale of such a small amount will not affect the overall price of the stock.  You'd have to sell a very large block of stock to move the price on most shares and then if you were successful in lowering the price, the fact that you were buying a larger block than you sold may move the price back up making your trade a loser.
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- This a lost in Stock Mark Index.\n- It loses 0.49 points.\n--------------
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I just tried to answer this question, typed several paragraphs, then you pulled it. What's the deal?\n\nAnyway, I also sold the EUR this morning, but got stopped out on the spike up at 8:30 prior to the decline. It then declined 50 pips.\n\nIf you had used a trailing 20 pip stop, your trade would have worked out fine.\n\nDon't you move your stop to breakeven when it goes in your favor?\n\nYou did the right thing by executing on the short side, but just didn't manage it when it started running. You have to know that a news release that cements in another rate hike is going to cause volatitility.\n\nThe reasons it went a certain way are unimportant. Just because it doesn't do what you expect is no reason not to trade it. Just follow price and volume, increase your odds, and decrease your risk where and when possible. Sometimes there are no reasons, and you would rarely trade if you had to have a reason every time from some media talking head.\n\nTrade the Mini when volatility increases if you can't afford to lose $1,500.
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Stay out of the Market.\n\nA "Stop Loss" order  is an order to sell stock at a certain price below what the stock buyer paid for the stock so that if the Stock Market is falling Your Stock Broker has to sell your stock when it falls to your stop loss Price. This protects you from any more loss on a falling Market. In selling your stock it is possible for the price of the stock to drift down a little more before a sale takes place. Place stop loss orders an any stock you buy. It limits your loss.
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"Sell short" means that you borrow some shares to sell. \n"Cover" means that you buy some shares so as to return them to where you borrow them from. \n\nWhen you sell short at 42 for 200 shares, you get $8400.\nBut, when you buy to cover at 45 for 200 shares, you pay $9000. \n\nTherefore, you have a net loss of $600 (ignoring trading cose, and the interest of borrowing shares).
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Now that it has dropped below it's 50-day moving average, I would wait and watch a bit before jumping in.  At this point, you would like to see a reversal of trend before believing it's heading up again.  (If you're talking about shorting or closing a short sale, the answer is clearly different!)
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You are short 10 options (either calls or puts), and every portfolio listing I've ever seen indicates shorts with a negative number.  If the entry choices are + or -, then definitely go with the minus.\n\nYHOO just broke Sept. low and is very close to Feb. 2005 low, so things could get real interesting.  I expect some recovery tomorrow but longer term I'm bearish on YHOO, just not bearish enough to go short.
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If you put in a limit order for $5.00 and the stock trades as low as $5.00 you may not get filled, or if it is a lot of shares you may get a partial fill. Any market orders placed before the limit price was hit will be ahead of you and there may not be enough sellers at the low price to make everyone happy.\n\nBut in general you will get them at that price or fractions of a penny better if you use someone like ameritrade and it trades through your price.
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There's a company called buyins.net that keeps a list of stocks that look like someone shorted it without connecting it with real borrowers.  There's more information at their site.
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Short selling is absolutely insane for you if you are asking a question like this.\n\nA "short sale" is basically a minus sign in front of what would happen if you bought a stock. \n\nSo, if you normally buy a share of stock (say for a hundred dollars) and it goes up a dollar, you make a dollar (or a 1% return). And if it goes down a dollar, you lose a dollar (for a -1% return). When you have sold a share short, if the real share goes up a dollar, you lose a dollar, and vice versa.\n\nThat's all there is too it. You lose money if the stock goes up, and make money if it goes down, the opposite of what would happen if you engaged in the normal transaction of purchasing a share.\n\n(There are a number of related things that happen because you have to pay interest on the borrowed share, but you can invest the money that you got from selling, but at the same time you can't invest the money that you used to buy a share... you can ignore all this and interest you pay or receive all comes out in the wash; the market is fair.)\n\nSo, if it's so simple, why would it be insane for you to do? Because, most stocks go up most of the time. \n\nOther investors have invested their money in companies that are out there, and many of those investors both have done more homework than you, and are smarter all around investors anyway. So, If a company has shares traded, that means that other people think that investment is going to go up. The stock market is not flipping coins, companies create value out of thin air by people working hard. So, people work hard and create value and shareholders benefit from that.\n\nSo, since shares are expected to go up, when would you ever bet that they'll go down?\n\nAnswer: NEVER\n\nSo, why would you short sell?\n\nWell, you short sell to get rid of risk in your portfolio from other investments. Here is the easiest example: if you are Henry Ford VI and you inherited a bunch of Ford shares and you are not allowed to sell them, you can keep them, and short sell somebody else's. You still own yours, but if they go up $1, you don't earn the $1 because you also short sold another one which lost a dollar, so no matter what Ford does, you break even. Now you can invest your money sensibly in what you want, instead of all in Ford. All in Ford is risky, and short selling for you actually reduces your risk instead of increasing it.\n\nThat (and similar transactions) are what short selling is for.
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The term "short squeeze" refers to the pressure on short sellers to cover their positions as a result of sharp price increases or difficulty in borrowing the security the sellers are short. The rush by short sellers to cover produces additional upward pressure on the price of the stock, which then can trigger a short squeeze. If the stock goes up instead, the need to lessen losses can trigger the buying of stock.\n\nIn other words, the squeeze trigger refers to the way in which short-sellers (people who have "borrowed" stocks from brokers for a certain amount of time...) will have to buy back the stock from the open market so they do not lose money.  It usually happens for small-cap stocks.\nSo, if the trader is "short" the stock that he borrowed for twenty-four cents and he can buy shares back for ten cents, then he has made fourteen cents a share when it is time to give it back to whomever he borrowed it from.  The problem comes in when the stock goes up and not down and, of course, they would like to avoid that if they are short.  If the majority of short-sellers bought at twenty cents, that can be called the "squeeze trigger" (simplified, not counting commisions, premiums, etc.).  Suppose the stock climbs to twenty-one cents...now, they have to buy the stock back as fast as they can in order to "cover" their positions with their brokers because they are losing money with every up-tick in the price.  With all those guys buying at twenty cents or better, the stock price can jump through the roof all of a sudden one day ("spikes"...), then trades back down to its normal level.  If you do not know the trigger, you may not know what and when to expect it.  But there are sites online where you can find the squeeze triggers of 15,000 stocks.\nThe best advice is to not play that game because those guys are good at it and they take their chances with having a "short" go "long" (forced to buy...) on them.  It is a chance they have to take.\nYou, on the other hand, should not worry about it.  The best thing you can do is to set your sell point when you get into a stock if you are a trader.  If you are an investor, forget about it altogether. If you are going to trade the stock, decide at which percentage you want to get out, set your open order (Limit Order...) to that level and then leave it alone.  Perhaps your "sell" will be triggered itself in this frenzy of buying that occurs and you will get lucky that way.  Know when you want to sell and it is really that simple.\nAs far as the stock itself, always look for well-led companies with an interesting and innovative product.  If the product is something you can imagine and believe in, then stay in it.  If not, get out.  Ask yourself, what does LVTI do, exactly?
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Simply put, you're investing in the stock to go down. \n\nNormally, you'd buy to open, hope that the price goes up, then sell to close.  \n\nIf you thought the stock would go down, you'd do the opposite.  Sell to pen first, have the stock price go down, then buy to close.  You keep the difference minus commissions.\n\nOptions are different and a little more complex.  In options, usually you use sell to open in conjunction with a buy to open on a different option.  But you could just do what's called going naked.  \n\nYou sell to open and buy to close a "put" option if you thought the stock was going up.  Or you'd sell to open and buy to close a "call" option if you thought the stock would decrease.\n \nThis is the simple definition.  Trading options takes more education, so be careful if you decide to do so.  Because they are leveraged, you can lose money much, much faster with options if you don't know what you're doing.  Education is the key for consistent success.\n\nBest of luck.  Hope that helps!
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I can't answer this specifically for those companies, but what generally happens is that your stock is converted to stock in the new company, at a rate specified by the takeover company. (1 share in the new company for every 2 shares owned in the target company, for example)  You should receive a letter soon, explaining what has happened.
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if all other changes are ignored, then the split of a stock will have ZERO affect on the value or the number of shares you own in the ETF.  A simple example, if it is a 2 for 1 split, then the number of shares of the company will double and (theoretically) the price will at the same time go to exactly one half of the pre-split price.\n\nps--just ignore what dehygrate is saying.  he's answering a different question!
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NOTHING HAPPENS... ALL YOU DO IS PAY A LATE CHARGE..\nWICH RUNS FROM 100 TO 200 DOLLARS