Investors shorting dividend stocks aren't entitled to dividends; they must pay lenders. Learn key concepts about short ...

Short selling is a way to invest so that you profit when the price of a security — such as a stock — declines. It’s considered an advanced strategy that is probably best left to experienced investors ...

S3 Partner’s Ihor Dusaniwksy describes what short-selling numbers both long and short investors should pay attention to, and why you can’t really have short interest that’s more than 100% of a stock’s ...

Short selling is an investment technique that generates profits when shares of a stock go down rather than up. In most cases, shorting stocks is best left to the professionals. In fact, it’s mostly ...

GameStop was a good candidate for a short—that is, a bet that its stock price would decline (a process I’ll describe shortly). And, indeed, if you had shorted GameStop a while back, you could have ...

— -- The Securities and Exchange Commission issued a temporary ban Friday on short sales of 799 financial stocks, a dramatic move against traders who have sought profits from the most severe ...

Short squeezes are nothing new. But recent action in some heavily shorted stocks over the past weeks has brought the topic to the fore again. One thing many people ask is: How can a stock be more than ...