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Thursday, October 26, 2006 10:41:02 PM
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I capitalized WHEN THE SHORT SELLER DECIDES...
Short selling is hard enough to get your head around without getting into all the particulars. If you have a basic understanding of short selling, then you probably know that as a short you are required to make up for any benefits a long investor would receive if he or she had actually owned the stock.
When you short a stock, you are borrowing the stock from an investor or broker, then selling those shares on the open market to a second investor. Even though you borrowed and sold the shares to another investor, the transaction between you and the lender is still listed on the books as if the lender is still long on the stock and you are short on the stock (even though that person no longer owns the stock).
Because that original investor who was kind enough to lend you the stock is no longer an actual shareholder with the company, the short seller is required to make up for any benefits the investor would have received had he or she actually still owned the stock.
In other words, if a company pays a dividend to shareholders, the second investor who bought the shares from the short seller would get the dividend check from the company. But because the original investor is no longer a shareholder of record (because the second investor owns those shares now), then the short seller must pay the dividend out of his/her own pocket.
Finally, WHEN THE SHORT SELLER DECIDES to close out the short position, he or she buys shares ON THE OPEN MARKET (from a third investor) and then gives the shares back to the original investor, who closes out the short position and puts everything back to square one.
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