sell short

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The fund is known as a 130/30 fund, and the concept is that if you give me $100, I buy attractive names, then sell short $30 worth of stocks we think will underperform.

From Barron's

To duplicate that return yourself, you would need to buy the highest-momentum stocks and simultaneously sell short an equal dollar amount of the biggest losers.

From MarketWatch

The various floors, or tranches, of subprime mortgage bonds all had one thing in common: The bonds were impossible to sell short.

From Literature

Consider the performance of a hypothetical portfolio that buys the 10% of stocks with the highest betas and sells short the decile of stocks with the lowest betas.

From MarketWatch

The viral clip of the show is the convenient entry point, but it sells short what the gentlemen have built.

From Los Angeles Times