What Is Short Selling?

By Tom Taulli

Book Overview

Today's Most Easy-to-Understand Introduction to Short Selling--How It Works, and How to Make It Work for You

Short selling is one of today's most versatile and potentially profitable investing techniques--and also one of the most misunderstood. What is Short Selling? demystifies this often overlooked process, detailing everything from what short selling is and how it works to short selling strategies you can use to increase your portfolio's performance as you shield it from disastrous market downturns.

Investing author Tom Taulli has made a name for himself by providing independent investors with practical how-to's on profitable investment techniques. In What is Short Selling?, Taulli takes you behind the curtain to reveal:

How to use financial statements and other publicly available information to uncover excellent short sale candidatesSpecial trading rules for short sellers, including the uptick ruleUnique risks of short selling, and steps you can take to minimize those risks

For decades, portfolio managers and sophisticated investors have used short selling to enhance their trading. Now it's your turn. What is Short Selling? reveals how virtually any trader or investor can benefit from this powerful technique, and provides you with the knowledge you need to use short selling to improve your portfolio's returns as you control your investment

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0071427856
• ISBN13: 9780071427852
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Length: 101 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Short Short Selling

I guess I can't blame the author. There really isn't much to short selling a stock. If you want to know what short selling is or how to do it, you'll learn how to do it in 30 min. Buyer beware... please supplement this book with additional information. If you short sell a stock, you are basically saying that the company you're shorting is going to lose value. With enough company, you can take GE to under $6 a share or Citibank to a penny stock. Why bet on a company to fail? Instead, use the info in this book to learn how to beat the short sellers and buy GE at $6 before it doubles in a couple weeks or Citibank quadruples. Be a bull.

Excellent book; All good material, no fluff

I loved this book. It was brief and to the point. No fillers or fluff at all. No unwanted stories to unnecessarily increase the number of pages. This is a good introduction to short selling. Very easy read. I found that I could read through the book very fast. The information in the book is relevant to all stock traders and not just short sellers.