Short selling : finding uncommon short ideas /

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When an investor believes a stock is overvalued and will soon drop in price, he might decide to short it. First, he borrows an amount of the stock, and then sells it. He waits for the stock to tank and then buys back the same amount of shares at a deflated price. After returning the shares to his le...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kumar, Amit (Certified Financial Analyst) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Short selling (Securities)
Stocks > Prices.
Investments.
Vente à découvert.
Actions (Titres de société) > Prix.
Investissements.
portfolios (financial records)
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Finance.
Investments
Stocks > Prices
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Framework to finding short ideas
  • 1. Due diligence in short selling
  • 2. Leveraged businesses: the upside and the downside
  • 3. Structural issues in industries
  • 4. Recipes for cooked books: accounting misstatements and shenanigans
  • 5. The world is going to end
  • Part II. How successful investors and analysts think
  • 6. Value investing
  • 7. Activist investing
  • 8. Papa bear: coattailing marquee investors or betting against them?
  • 9. Off Wall Street: two decades of successful shorting
  • Part III. Risks and mechanics of short selling
  • 10. When to hold, when to fold
  • 11. The mechanics of short selling.

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