Short Sale Technical Details — Stock Trading Analysis (11)

There are many ways to play depending on your goal.
If you’ve bought a stock and plan to hold it for 2 months, you can short the same stock in another account. When the price comes down in the intervening period, you make a profit on the short.
But if the price goes up and up, then you’re screwed.
But who knows where the price will go?

this is kind of all confusing, isn’t it better to just put a stop on a number. Like if you buy at 10 per share and it goes up to 15, you put a stop at 14, that way if it goes down you take your profit and if it goes up, you take even more profit.

It all depends on your own goal. Suppose you want to keep the buy for a month, and you think that the stock may fall or consolidate next week. Then you short it to profit next week while keeping the buy.
Once you lock in your profit with buy and short of the same stock, it does not matter where the price goes. You can get rid of both positions any time in the future.

very nice

Keep the videos coming……… the behavior and the intentions of the big guys is really quite interesting