Leverage involves using borrowed capital or securities to fund a financial asset. Short selling and covering are strategies that incorporate leverage to maximize returns. Short covering means the ...

Investors have a chance to gain from dropping stock prices by short selling, a fascinating but difficult financial tactic. Short selling capitalizes on selling borrowed stocks at current high prices ...

Margin call issuance: If you enter into short-selling activity by borrowing funds (margin trading ... deposit additional funds or purchase the shorted shares. Overall, short covering serves as a ...

Short selling offers investors a unique avenue to ... the stock price forces short sellers to buy back shares quickly to cover their positions, further driving up the price. Shorting stocks ...

Chris Hughes is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering deals ... short-seller Jim Chanos threw in the towel on activist short selling, the equally famous Hindenburg Research is calling it a ...