Covered Bear

  

Categories: Derivatives, Trading

When we’re talking about a bear in the trading world, the expectation is that a stock price will drop. To make this as simple as possible, the investor is shorting a stock because, by definition, they think it’s going down, but they already own the stock, so the short is covered.

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