short position

short position (plural short positions)

1. (finance) A financial instrument bought with the expectation that it will decrease in value.

   Coordinate term: long position

   • 2011 July 18, John Cassidy, “Mastering the Machine”, in The New Yorker‎, →ISSN:

     Among the bets the Pure Alpha fund placed last year were long positions in Treasury bonds, the Japanese yen, and gold, and short positions in the euro and European sovereign debt.

• short (finance) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• John Smullen, Nicholas Hand, editors (2005), “short position”, in A Dictionary of Finance and Banking, 3rd edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 375