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Investor Stock Glossary:
Long position
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Owning or holding options (i.e., the number of contracts bought exceeds the number of contracts sold). For equities, a Long position occurs when an individual owns securities. An owner of 1,000 Shares of Stock is said to be "Long the stock." Related: Short position. |
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Charts Examples of how we apply volume technical
analysis to our charts for the purpose of anticipating the
market direction over the short-, mid-, and long-term. Market timing
examples are based on charts of the S&P 500 and NASDAQ 100 indexes.
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