Sentence examples for long positions from inspiring English sources

It also has a few long positions.

As a result, the bank wound up exposed to huge one-way bets, or long positions.

Gasoline futures fell as speculators continued to get out of long positions.

Those that took long positions in equities and commodities did particularly well.

Ten minutes later, however, they began forcefully selling to reduce their "long" positions.

Physical traders held more of the outstanding long positions (10.3%), and held even more short positions.

Non-commercial net long positions in futures markets are at an unprecedented level (see chart).

Driven by long positions in technology, the fund gained 53.4percentt in 1998 and 135percentt in 1999.

Among the fund's long positions, a big driver of its recent performance was Harmony Gold Mining of South Africa.

But those who have held onto their long positions in financial stocks have likely made big gains.

Currently, the fund holds about 125 short positions in stocks and 75 long positions, about two-thirds of which are invested in shares of gold companies.