taking an investment position that will benefit if the value of the stock goes down. Traditionally, "shorting a stock" means borrowing shares of stock from another broker, selling them, then buying them back (after the price has fallen) in order to return the stocks to the broker from whom they were borrowed.
You can short a stock using a derivative; this can include buying futures in the stock (i.e., a contract to sell someone else the stocks); or buying a put option (also called a put). A third way is to write a call (i.e., a call option, also known as a call) for the stock.
You can short a stock using a derivative; this can include buying futures in the stock (i.e., a contract to sell someone else the stocks); or buying a put option (also called a put). A third way is to write a call (i.e., a call option, also known as a call) for the stock.
Shorting a stock usually requires a great deal of skill and courage; even the most talented short will only make money during rare crises.
by Abu Yahya April 5, 2010
Get the shorting a stock mug.A Shocking Sanchez is when a Shocker hand gesture is inserted into a woman's anus (pinkie) and vagina (index and middle fingers) this is also known by this phrase "2 pink, one in the stink". After this insertion is withdrawn, this same hand gesture is placed under a person's nose with the pinkie being drawn under this person's nostrils. In some cases, this person sticks out their tongue to sample the vaginal juices on the index and middle fingers of the passing by shocker hand.
After I gave my gf a shocker, I decided to let her smell her own ass and taste her pussy by turning that simple shocker into a Shocking Sanchez...she loved it and wanted me to do it over and over again.
by Buck Futt April 3, 2010
Get the Shocking Sanchez mug.when you are a crack and/or meth head and you look all over the ground (that you put your hard drugs on or near), all over the carpet, and desks, tables, etc., and you are desperately looking for any little piece of the drug to snort or smoke, cause you're a tweaker, and you need the drugs so bad. this is also called tweaking. the person has to be real serious about it, his head real close to the ground scanning it like he's a Terminator idenifying objects. and it looks real sad to the observer, cause the person is acting crazy.
"fernando, what are you doing?"
fernando: "shuddup fool, shuddup. there's still a few pieces/some shit around here." *is looking super close to the table and around the carpet*
"dude, you've been doing that for like an hour now. let's go."
"(we'll go in) just a sec."
*30 minutes pass*
"what the fuck fernando, let's go"
*grabs fernando and pulls him out of the room*
*later on telling another friend what fernando was doing and why it took so long to meet him*
"fernando was carpet sharking(/tweaking) again."
fernando: "shuddup fool, shuddup. there's still a few pieces/some shit around here." *is looking super close to the table and around the carpet*
"dude, you've been doing that for like an hour now. let's go."
"(we'll go in) just a sec."
*30 minutes pass*
"what the fuck fernando, let's go"
*grabs fernando and pulls him out of the room*
*later on telling another friend what fernando was doing and why it took so long to meet him*
"fernando was carpet sharking(/tweaking) again."
by Crank the Klown September 22, 2008
Get the Carpet Sharking mug.To pull a girl's panties down in public, usually when she's wearing a short skirt. Very popular in Japan.
by Douglas Goldstein February 17, 2005
Get the sharking mug.Ryan (born Febuary 11, 2004), better known as Shockingryan, is a British Youtuber and one of the best HIVE Bedrock Edition Players.
by Hive Bedrock May 8, 2022
Get the Shockingryan mug.When you go to a club and a good song comes on, you start to fist pump and all of a sudden you turn into the Jersey Shore cast, dancing the night away.
by Jersey Girl living in Texas March 18, 2012
Get the jersey shoring mug.1. A heinous yet undeniable satisfactory act where a man, ussually masked and hooded, qiuetly masturbates unnoticed in a corner until the moment prior to ejaculation, at which point he runs up to an unsuspecting woman and bestows his load upon her face, then sprints away before revenge can be enacted upon him
2. The process of blowing a load onto a women wearing high heels to ensure a safe get-a-way, ussually with a hidden camera man nearby to immortalize the sheer audacity of the sharker
3. For another version, see japanese sharking
2. The process of blowing a load onto a women wearing high heels to ensure a safe get-a-way, ussually with a hidden camera man nearby to immortalize the sheer audacity of the sharker
3. For another version, see japanese sharking
"Damn european sharking got me again, time to bust out the industrial strength shampoo!"
Friend 1: Good God, arent you a whore?
Friend 2: No... it was a european sharker, the bastard!
Friend 1: Well did you make him pay for it?
Friend 2: I was wearing high heals *starts crying* he got away..
Friend 1: Good God, arent you a whore?
Friend 2: No... it was a european sharker, the bastard!
Friend 1: Well did you make him pay for it?
Friend 2: I was wearing high heals *starts crying* he got away..
by Jakndakster November 2, 2011
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