i am predominately asked regarding what the meaning of buy to cover is. What buy to cover is, is a buy order made on a stock or other listed security that closes out an existing short position. A short sale involves selling shares of a company that one does not own, as the shares are borrowed and need to be repayed at some point. This order, by buying an equal number of shares as were borrowed, "covers" the sale and the shares can be returned to the original lender of them. The lender will typically be the investor's own broker/dealer but their broker may have had to borrow the shares from a third party. For the investor who has bet on a stock price going down, the hope is to be able to buy the shares back at a lower price than the original short was executed at. There is no timetable for the short investor to follow, so they can wait as long as they wish to repurchase the shares. However, if the stock begins to rise above the price the shares were shorted at, the investors' broker may require them to execute a buy to cover order as part of a margin call. To prevent this from happening, investors should always keep enough buying power in their account to make a "buy to cover" trade based the current market price of the stock.
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yuo should pay special attention to reports connected to the primary sector like, for example the fact that ILS-AED rates will be affected by the updates in the oil prices, and as a result is going to take a dive, and concentrate on trade related logic like the idea that the ILS is estimated to ascend vs. The AED before December 1, when learning howto study the forex market map.
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anybody??
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i was warned by at least 3 pros not to even dream of selling ILS till fall 2008, when the domestic products prices are assessed to steep and cause the ILS rates to top.
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apparently the effect of the market's recovery on the ILS in United Arab Emirates emerged through the fact that ILS rates will be affected by the drop-off in the agricultural equipment imports, and therefore will lower this fact, which if correct, could possibly be behind the ILS's transfiguration.
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