Wednesday, October 6, 2010

The Long & Short of Trading

In recent times it seems going Long has been favoured by Shorts Trading (ie holding shares for shorter rather than longer periods of time).  For a long term investor this isn't necessarily good news, as the trend of "micro" trading of big broking houses and fund managers  (trading over a very small spread, say when the price change is a few dollars) can mean small individual shareholdings get hammered. 

Shorts trading can be tricky for a novice.  My Trading Edge provides some insight

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