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Can anyone tell me why when i short 100,000 shares of a stock prices at $25.03 it shorts it at $24.94 automaticall giving me a 9k loss?
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Dorfman
Jul 29, 09:47
In the time between your order going through and you looking at your port, it dropped $.09. That sucks, but sometimes it works the other way
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PRodQuanta
Jul 29, 09:52
Chuckage. If it bothers you as much as it does me, just short in increments...I do it in batches of 25k, so i put in 4 orders in a row.
Paul2k
Jul 29, 10:05
i'll try that and do smaller orders. Ya gotta love port monkey
Dorfman
Jul 29, 10:17
Would not the previous transactions influence (adversely) the price at which the later transactions were executed?{nm}
DTXbro
Jul 29, 17:02
Is that logical?
Jane_Citizen
Jul 29, 20:14
*you're getting in at a lower price (I meant)
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Jane_Citizen
Jul 29, 20:14
Example: starting price $25. A full 100k short would get it to you at $24.90. A short at 25k would get it to you at 24.98. A second 25k
Paul2k
Jul 29, 21:40
I think your maths is right, yeah - I'm going to have to do an experiment to demonstrate it to myself
Jane_Citizen
Jul 30, 04:40