The phrase "able to short" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts related to finance or trading, where "short" refers to short selling, but it needs clarification.
Example: "Investors are able to short stocks when they believe the market will decline."
Alternatives: "capable of shorting" or "permitted to short".
"They might not be able to short as effectively.
If you have an opinion and insight into a company that is not good, you have to be able to short it".
"Being able to short stocks is a very important tool," said Rex Macey, chief investment officer of Wilmington Trust, who calls himself an admirer of Mr. Malkiel.
If they are not allowed to profit from their short positions in a bust, they will not be able to short during a boom, and thus more bubbles will occur.
Rather, I'm trying to point to the value to us all of people being able to short sell stocks.
Shortselling in Hong Kong is more unrestricted than in Chinese mainland which has only been relaxed starting with mainland investors having been able to short A shares within certain volume limits since 2006 and then with the international investors having the ability to short A shares through Shanghai-Hong Kong Connect since 2014.
"I don't think members should be able to short-circuit ethics investigations by resigning," she said.
"While they may not be able to short-sell, any rally in stocks will only give traders the opportunity to close out of existing positions".
Since the launch in 2009 of Kickstarter, the best-known crowdfunding website, dozens of designers have been able to short-circuit the big publishing firms.
By comparison, to the annoyance of Clinton advisers, Mr. Edwards has proved able to short-circuit questions about his own Senate vote for military action in 2002 by repeatedly calling it a mistake.
Kapoor, who announced his departure from Mayfield to create his own startup studio, explains that an experienced entrepreneur can give founders an advantage by being able to short-circuit lessons that the entrepreneur learned when he or she founded a company previously.
