What is short selling?

Short selling (also known as shorting) is the going long on a company's stock and at the same time going short on its currency.
Shorting is a trade in which you borrow shares of a company from someone else who owns them and sell them for cash like a traditional security would be traded. This creates an obligation to return those shares at some point in the future, but that's not all: You also profit from any decline in value of the shares you borrowed during the interim.

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Short selling a stock means to sell a stock first and then to buy it back later. This is usually done when the price of the stock is falling and traders who are active in the market, want to benefit from the falling stock prices as opposed to buying a stock and benefiting from the rise in price. In such a case, a trader sells a stock by borrowing the stock from the broker and buy the stock before the end of day. But one should still avoid to short a stock as there are risks associated with it. The stock can reverse the trend and the trader can end up loosing money. Thus only an experienced trader should engage in such trades.

Disclaimer: Securities Market is subject to Market Risks, please consult your Certified Financial Advisor before investing.

It’s clear from the name itself. Short means brief or incomplete, and selling is to sell. In share market, stock incomplete sell is known as Short Selling. In Short Selling, stocks are first sold and then brought.