| 21. | Unlike most mutual funds, CGM Focus is permitted to short stocks, a strategy that turns a profit if prices go down.
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| 22. | About 9 percent of the Small Cap fund's $ 37 million in assets is being used to short stocks, Nasgovitz said.
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| 23. | That tells me because of short stocks in the U . S . the world wants their piece of the pie.
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| 24. | As a result, the top-performing funds for the third quarter were index funds that mostly short stocks, or bet on market declines.
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| 25. | Investors in the hedge fund asked him to short stocks, he said, something he does not do in his mutual fund portfolios.
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| 26. | So, in order to short stocks in his cash accounts at the nine brokerage firms, Morse should have already owned the shares.
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| 27. | Hedge fund managers have more freedom to invest in different investments and also to short stocks, betting they will decline in price.
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| 28. | Unlike most other fund managers, Trapp is permitted by the fund's charter to short stocks _ that is, to bet on price declines.
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| 29. | "Or we would get short stocks " _ that is, bet on their declines _ " and talk to analysts about the negatives.
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| 30. | Of course, if you misjudge the direction of your short stock and it rises, you'll find yourself in a " short squeeze ."
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