You've probably heard the term short sale, and have at least a general - oh, what did I do with that?발음듣기
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Oh there it is, I scrolled down - you probably have a general idea that it means, to some degree, making a bet that a stock will fall.발음듣기
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And there's been a lot of news lately that maybe short sellers are to blame for a lot of the stock market crashes, or what's happening with banks.발음듣기
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So I thought it would be worthwhile to at least explain what a short sale is.발음듣기
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And then we could talk a little bit about whether they're positive or negative, or they could be both.발음듣기
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So you are right if you think that a short sale is some type of a bet that a stock can go down.발음듣기
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But how does it work?발음듣기
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So let's say that, I don't know, IBM - and I don't know where IBM is trading right now - but let's say IBM is right now - the last trade was at $100.발음듣기
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And I'm convinced.발음듣기
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I've done my research, I've done my analysis, and I'm just convinced that the stock price of IBM is going to fall.발음듣기
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I think IBM is going to have a horrible quarter next quarter.발음듣기
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That some other competitor is going to take their business, whatever.발음듣기
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I'm convinced it's going to fall to $50.발음듣기
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This is what I think.발음듣기
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I think it's going to fall to $50, based on my deep stock analysis.발음듣기
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And so, the general idea is that I should - well I won't make any value judgment right now - but I want to know if there's a way that I can make money off of my deep analysis.발음듣기
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And the way I do that is I go to my brokerage - so let me draw some diagrams.발음듣기
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So this is my brokerage, this is my broker, and this is me right here.발음듣기
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I have a top hat.발음듣기
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Anyway, so I go to the broker and I say broker, I would like to short IBM.발음듣기
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I would like - let's just say for simplicity I want to short one share of IBM.발음듣기
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So what I do is I go to the broker, and I say broker, can I borrow a share of IBM?발음듣기
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And this is a little unintuitive the first time people learn about it.발음듣기
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It was a little unintuitive for me the first time I learned about the notion of borrowing a share.발음듣기
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But you can also view it as renting a share.발음듣기
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And you might say well, where's the broker getting it from?발음듣기
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Well this broker's got a ton of clients.발음듣기
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Let me draw some of them.발음듣기
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His eyes were strange.발음듣기
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OK, so this broker has a ton of clients, many of whom own IBM.발음듣기
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And they keep their shares of IBM with the broker.발음듣기
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So the broker always has - let's say each of these is a share of IBM.발음듣기
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And these guys are all owners of IBM.발음듣기
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And if ever, one day, this guy wanted to sell his share of IBM, the broker would go out there, sell it in the market, or maybe this guy would sell it, depending on how it's done.발음듣기
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And then this would be replaced with the money, and this would then become $100, right?발음듣기
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And then if IBM issues a dividend, if it says OK, all of our shareholders will get $5.00 from a company.발음듣기
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And then each of these guys would get $5.00.발음듣기
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So they're all just shareholders in the company.발음듣기
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And also, just so you know, as opposed to being short the company, they're long.발음듣기
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When you go long [? on a ?] security, you're buying the security.발음듣기
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When you go short, as you'll see, you're borrowing the security and selling it.발음듣기
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So let's see how that works.발음듣기
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So once again I go to my broker and I say broker, I want to borrow a share of IBM.발음듣기
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And the broker says OK, well I've got all these share sitting around here.발음듣기
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And they're really not doing anything.발음듣기
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I'll lend you this share right there.발음듣기
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And stick it in my account.발음듣기
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And I'm going to have to pay rent to borrow that share.발음듣기
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You can kind of view it as either interest on borrowing the share, or you can view it as rent.발음듣기
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Rent is sometimes more intuitive.발음듣기
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Because whenever we talk about when you rent someone's apartment, you're really kind of borrowing their apartment.발음듣기
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Then you can kind of view the rent as the interest on the apartment.발음듣기
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Or the other way to view it, when you borrow money, the interest is kind of rent on the money.발음듣기
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Anyway, I think you get the idea.발음듣기
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But I'll borrow this.발음듣기
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And you'll say hey wait, Sal, that doesn't make sense.발음듣기
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How can you just borrow this guy's stock?발음듣기
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I mean, this guy might want to sell it the next day.발음듣기
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And that's a good question.발음듣기
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If this guy wants to - let's say I borrow his stock, it's not sitting there anymore.발음듣기
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If this guy wants to sell his stock the second after I borrow it, the broker is just going to take - he's just going to shuffle around the stocks a little bit.발음듣기
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I mean, you know stocks are - they call it fungible, you can replace one stock certificate with the other.발음듣기
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They're no different.발음듣기
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So then he'll say OK, I'll just give this stock to this guy. Whoops.발음듣기
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I just messed up with my pen.발음듣기
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I'll just give this stock to the guy who wants to sell it, and then you would have essentially borrowed from this guy.발음듣기
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And you could keep rearranging the securities so that none of these guys ever know that their stock is borrowed.발음듣기
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Although you have to give permission, especially if these guys own the stock outright.발음듣기
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They have to give permission to let the stock be borrowed, and they benefit, because they get some cut, hopefully, they get some cut of the rent, or the interest that I'm paying.발음듣기
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So it's beneficial to them.발음듣기
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And the broker can never, well it should never, really, lend out all of the shares here.발음듣기
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Just so that it can keep shuffling around.발음듣기
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And we'll talk about what happens if you actually try to do this with a share that you've never borrowed.발음듣기
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We'll do that in a future thing.발음듣기
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But the general idea is, you borrow one of these shares out here, and then the broker can kind of keep shuffling around these shares, if any of these guys really want to get rid of their share.발음듣기
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And let's say I've borrowed this guy's.발음듣기
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Let's say I originally borrowed this guy's share.발음듣기
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This guy wanted to sell his share.발음듣기
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So what the broker does is, he takes this share, gives it to him, and now I have officially borrowed this guy's share. Right?발음듣기
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This is the share I'm borrowing now because this one's been sold.발음듣기
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Now, what happens if IBM issues a dividend?발음듣기
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It says every one of our shareholders should get $5.00.발음듣기
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Well this guy's expecting a $5.00 check.발음듣기
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Or he expects $5.00 to be deposited in his brokerage account.발음듣기
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For that to happen, I essentially have to write this guy the $5.00 check.발음듣기
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So I have to make it look, or at least the broker is going to force me to make it look like this guy still owns the share.발음듣기
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So anything that this guy gets by being a shareholder of this stock, I have to provide for him.발음듣기
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Anyway, so I've borrowed the stock.발음듣기
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Now what do I do with it?발음듣기
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My whole thesis here is that IBM is going to $50, so how do I make money off of that?발음듣기
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So I [? set ?] [? this ?] trading right now at $100.발음듣기
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I've borrowed this share.발음듣기
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So let's see, the first thing is I borrow one share, as I've done there.발음듣기
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And now I sell it on the market.발음듣기
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And we said it's selling for $100.발음듣기
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I sell it for $100.발음듣기
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So I sell it to the market.발음듣기
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Let's say the market is out here to the left.발음듣기
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So I sell to the market, and I get $100.발음듣기
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So let's see what's happening right now.발음듣기
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What's my current state of affairs?발음듣기
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Let's say assets - and I'll talk about margin requirements later - liabilities.발음듣기
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What do I have, what do I owe?발음듣기
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So now I have $100.발음듣기
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And what do I owe?발음듣기
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I owe one share of IBM.발음듣기
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Let's say my analysis ends up being correct, often times it won't.발음듣기
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And we'll talk a little bit more about why short selling can be extremely risky.발음듣기
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But let's say my analysis is correct, and a couple of days later IBM starts trading at $50.발음듣기
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What I can do now is unwind my trade, or cover my short.발음듣기
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And the way I do this, is I have $100, right?발음듣기
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What I can do is, I can then just go out there and buy my shares of IBM back, right?발음듣기
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So I buy one share of IBM.발음듣기
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And how much do I have to pay?발음듣기
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Do I have to pay $100?발음듣기
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Well no, the share of IBM stock price has dropped to $50.발음듣기
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So actually, let me do that.발음듣기
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I'm not paying $100 out, I'm going to pay $50 out.발음듣기
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And I'm going to get back a share of IBM.발음듣기
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I'm going to get back a share of IBM, and that's what I owe.발음듣기
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So I'll give it back to my brokerage.발음듣기
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So I will go out, spend $50, get back a share, and then give that share back to the brokerage, give it back to that guy.발음듣기
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These guys never knew that anything happened.발음듣기
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And in the process, what happened?발음듣기
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I sold the shares for $100, and I bought them back for $50.발음듣기
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So after unwinding this whole thing - I used $50 of this $100 to buy the shares back.발음듣기
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So how much do I have left?발음듣기
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And I returned the shares of IBM, so I owe no one anything.발음듣기
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So I made $50 off of this trade.발음듣기
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So traditionally in the stock market, on the long side you want to buy low, sell high, right?발음듣기
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When you're short selling, you're doing the same thing, but you're doing it in reverse.발음듣기
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You want to sell high and buy low.발음듣기
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Anyway, hopefully that gives you the general idea of the mechanics of short selling.발음듣기
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In the next video I'll talk a little bit more about what - this was a very good scenario, where what I wanted to happen did happen.발음듣기
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But in the next video we'll talk about the risks of short selling, and maybe a little bit of a discussion of whether it really is good or bad for the markets, or for society as a whole.발음듣기
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See you in the next video.발음듣기
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