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long position

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long position (plural long positions)

  1. (finance) A financial instrument bought with the expectation that it will increase in value.
    Coordinate term: short position
    • 2011 July 18, John Cassidy, “Mastering the Machine”, in The New Yorker‎[1], →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.

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Further reading

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  • long (finance) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • John Smullen, Nicholas Hand, editors (2005), “long position”, in A Dictionary of Finance and Banking, 3rd edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 248
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