عزيزي عبدالله،
يمكنك الاستفادة من الإنخفاضات الحادة باتباع طريقة Short Selling وهي تبيع السهم أولا بسعر 10 دولار مثلا وبعد ذلك إذا إنخفض سعر السهم إلى 5 دولار تشتريه بـ 5 دولار ويكون ربحك من السهم الواحد 5 دولار! وهذه الطريقة خطره جدا ويجب عليك بأن تكون متمرسا بها وهي لا تنطبق على جميع الأسهم ويجب أن يكون حسابك مارجن للتعامل بهذه الطريقة!
وهذه هي بعض الأساسيات لـ Short Selling :
Short selling means selling a stock you don’t own. To make more sense, you borrow shares of a stock to sell short from your broker or from another person’s account in hopes that the share price will drop. If it does, you can buy back the shares and pocket the difference from the borrowed price as profit. When you short sell, you don’t receive a stock certificate, no papers change hands, and the lender is not identified. Short selling has many drawbacks but can produce high profits if the share price declines.
Short selling can be very risky, and you will benefit only if the share price drops. When you short sell, the amount will show up on your account, but it doesn’t receive any interest or dividends and the money cannot be used. Even worse, if the company declares a dividend, you must pay the person who loaned you the shares because that person no longer owns the stock, but you don’t really own the shares either. Often times, your broker will make you use other stocks in your portfolio as collateral in case the share price rises and you don’t have enough money to buy back the shares. Your broker can sell shares of your stock to make sure you can return the shares to the lender.
Although short selling has many disadvantages, investors still short sell because they can make large profits if the share price drops. For example, Internet Capital Group (ICGE) dropped from 100 to 30 within the past two months. If you short sold 100 shares of ICGE at 100 and bought it back at 30, your profits would be (100-30) * 100 = $7,000. Investors usually buy stocks if they believe the share price will rise, but short selling is available to those who think the share price will drop.
Short selling is very risky and you could have unlimited losses if the share price kept rising. It is not recommended unless you strongly believe the share price will drop.
You must have a margin account with your broker before you can short stocks. This means you must maintain the proper collateral in this account or you may be subject to a margin call. Further, not all stocks can be sold short. These include penny stocks, unlisted stocks or stocks, which the broker does not have and cannot obtain from someone else in order to lend them to you.
Many traders have been burned by the much-feared "short squeeze". This occurs quite frequently. If a stock that many people have sold short suddenly starts to rise rapidly in price, many short sellers may decide that it is time to get out. They will then begin buying the stock to replace it. This may induce others with short positions to cover them by re-purchasing and replacing the stock. This extra buying demand will push up the price of the stock further, increasing the losses incurred by those short sellers who have not yet covered their positions.
It is obvious that short selling can be highly profitable. However, there is significant risk involved because there is no limit on how high a stock price may rise. If the price does rise, the investor will still be required to cover the short sale and pay the market price regardless of how high the price goes.
