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What is a short position?
Short position refers to the situation that under some special circumstances, the customer's rights and interests in the investor's margin deposit are negative, and the loss exceeds the margin in the account at this time. A short position is the assets left after the company closes its position forcibly, that is, the total assets MINUS your own losses usually leave a small part. Commonly used in spot gold and futures trading.

What is a short position?

There are two main situations of short positions. 1 The situation means that the futures trading customers still owe money to the futures trading company after closing their positions, that is, they meet the standard: the floating profit and loss of the account ≥ the total assets of the account, that is, the customer's equity ≤0. It is because the market is changing so fast that the deposit in the account can no longer maintain the original contract before the investor can maintain the deposit. This kind of "clearing" of margin caused by forced liquidation due to insufficient margin is also called "broken position", and the concept of "broken position" is the same as "broken position". Another situation of empty positions: it is more common to manipulate heavy positions and cause empty positions. For example, manipulating heavy positions, such as holding more than 90% of shares over the standard, leads to less funds that are not occupied and little room to resist adverse changes. Clumsy stock manipulation is a way to make quick profits and small losses. Why? Because of the reverse change, if the margin is not enough, you will explode, which is also the system software's own stop loss to force you to close the position. After the short position, your own account assets have not lost much, nor will it be negative, but the value of the contract you hold, which is also a lot of money.