What is long / short / long unwinding / Short Covering?

[lavanya]

Long: Buy first.

Long underwriting: sell latter.

Short: sell first.

Short covering: buy latter.

[JOHN]

LONG POSITION – Expect the share price to go up and buy shares

SHORT POSITION – Expect the share price to fall and sell shares

LONG UNWINDING – Exiting the Long Position by selling the shares within the stipulated time

SHORT COVERING – Exiting the Short Position by buying back the shares within the stipulated time

[SaiVigneshV.K.]

a long position is the one in which a trader first buys a share. selling the shares after buying them intially, is called as long unwinding.

 

when a trader first sells a share, its called as short trade. buying back the previously sold shares is called as short covering/buy back

[Shalini.s]

Long:buyers will b more .price will b high

Short:price goes down, sellers are more .

long winding:existing long postion for by selling shares

short covering: shor position by buying back shares

 

 

[vijayalakshmi]

LONG POSTION-Price goes up buy the shares.
SHORT POSTION-Price comes down sell shares
LONG UNWINDING- Long postion by selling the shares
SHORT COVERING- Short postion by buying back the shares..

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