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

[davidrajan]

long: when the buyer buy and hold the share to sell in future with expectation of high returns it is long

short: when the seller sell and hold to buy it with the expectation to price go down

long unwinding: selling the long postioned share

short covering: buying the short positioned shares

 

[S.Sivaraman]

Long – buying a stock expecting price to go up. Unwinding should be the act of selling stocks that were bought.

Short-selling a stock first up even before owning it expecting the price to drop. Short covering is buying back the stock which was sold earlier.

[clintonfernando]

Long – buy and hold it for the long term basis.

Short – buy and sell it quickly.

Long unwinding – selling the shares to exit long position.

Short covering – buying the shares to exit short position.

[Ravishankar]

Long: Buying the share with the intention of selling it later when the marker in Bullish trend

Short: Selling the share even though we didn’t own the position of share

Long unwinding: Selling the share which we bought some time back

Short Covering: Buying the shares which we sold on same day to get the <span style=”line-height: 1.5;”>position before market close.</span>

 

[v geetha]

Long – Buying the shares, wait till the prices go up and sell it later.
Short- Selling the shares when the prices go down and buy again.
Long unwinding-Selling the shares that is already bought.
Short covering-Buying the shares that is already sold.

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