The strategy of selling a stock and then buying it back at a later time is called "short selling."
Selling close in trading means selling a security that you already own, while selling open means selling a security that you do not own with the intention of buying it back later at a lower price.
buying price is bid, selling price is ask, difference is spread, profit is income or capital gain
Yes, it is possible to sell a stock before the settlement date through a process known as "selling short." This involves borrowing the stock from a broker and selling it with the intention of buying it back at a later date to return to the broker.
Investing? Land speculation? Real estate investing? Any of those would do.
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Buying up land and selling it later
Buying up land and selling it later
Selling close in trading means selling a security that you already own, while selling open means selling a security that you do not own with the intention of buying it back later at a lower price.
Speculation: the buying of land with the intention of selling at a profit when the market price rises. Source: United States History [in christian perspective] Heritage of Freedom(3rd Ed.)
You would not be in trouble unless there was reason to believe you knew it was stolen and participated in selling stolen property.
In the UK this is/was called hire purchase and was nicknamed buying on the never-never.
Cybersquatting is a controversial way of making money by buying and holding URLs with the hope that someone will want to buy the URL from you at a later date -- buying www.cocacola.com, for example, andthen selling the URL to CocaCola.
Buying web addresses is a money making practice as old as the Internet itself. The practice works by purchasing generic domain names and selling them later.
buying price is bid, selling price is ask, difference is spread, profit is income or capital gain
See www.aronline.co.uk/whydbbrf.htm for a full description of the possible resaons for BMW buying the Rover Group and then selling most of it (but not Mini) a few years later.
Yes, it is possible to sell a stock before the settlement date through a process known as "selling short." This involves borrowing the stock from a broker and selling it with the intention of buying it back at a later date to return to the broker.
You +1'd this publicly. UndoArbitrage is not simply the act of buying a product in one market and selling it in another for a higher price at some later time. The transactions must occur ...