What is Short Selling? 2025
Short interest measures how much of a security has been sold short by investors but not yet covered or closed out. It’s used to assess market sentiment and potential price moves in a stock, and many financial platforms provide this metric. At the end of the day, short selling is a very risky trading method that should only be done by sophisticated investors. Going long generally means buying shares in a company with the expectation that they will rise in…