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- Due for a downswing -- a put credit spread on SDS
- Taking some profits in Oil
- AGG dividend capture close out --ugly
- Time for a correction
- The supply and demand for Gold
- Ante up on my Gold prediction -- GLD dropping to 104
- Covering up the rest of the oil
- Long on VIX
- Covering up some oil
- Assignment / non-assignment of SPY December calls
- Bearish on VIX -- putting some money down
- Out of Gold--1 parts profit and 2 parts frustration
- Shifting strikes on oil--with three days to go bef...
- December settlement value on VIX options: 20.84 ...
- Going long on Oil
- December SPY dividend capture -- with quarterly op...
- Oil taking a beating -- is it the bottom yet?
- S&P 500 -- trendline or trading range?
- VIX option vertical spread close-out
- At least one provider that has their VIX Option gr...
- Close enough to the bottom trendline --back into SPY
- How to go long on VIX
- The Gold Bugs experiencing fear
- The news wasn't that good...
- VIX and VXX as leading indicators in a sideways ma...
- Computing the correct greeks for VIX options --vol...
- Where are we on the SPY trendline--Fear or Greed?
- AGG dividend capture -- ex-dividend update
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2 comments:
go long? what does that even mean?
Hi Heidi, The short answer is that to "go long", is a synonym for "to buy."
On a subtler level, it is an indication that you are expecting what ever you are buying, to go up in value, and even subtler, it is an indication that it is an opening transaction, rather than a closing one.
Generally in the real world, you have to buy something, before you can sell it, but in financial world in some cases you can sell something before you buy it. This is called "going short". The reason for doing this is that if the value of what you sold goes down you can close out the transaction by buying it at a lower price than you sold it, and make a profit in the process.
Going long, in this case indicates that your beginning move is the more typical buy transaction, rather than selling something.
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