Long (finance)

Participants
Bond Commodity Derivatives Foreign exchange Money Over-the-counter Private equity Real estate Spot Stock
Investor institutional Retail Speculator

Instruments

Time deposit
(certificate of deposit)

Corporate

Personal

Public

Government spending
Final consumption expenditure Operations Redistribution Transfer payment
Government revenue
Taxation Deficit spending Budget (balance) Debt Non-tax revenue Warrant of payment

Banks and banking

Lists of banks

Regulation · Standards

Economic history

In finance, a long position in a security, such as a stock or a bond, or equivalently to be long in a security, means the holder of the position owns the security and will profit if the price of the security goes up. Going long^[1] is the more conventional practice of investing and is contrasted with going short. An options investor goes long on the underlying instrument by buying call options or writing put options on it.

In contrast, a short position in a futures contract or similar derivative means that the holder of the position will profit if the price of the futures contract or derivative goes down.

Notes

↑ Bloomberg: Bond buyers getting burned by going long September 2010

References

Harrington, Shannon D. and Tim Catts, Sep 13, 2010, "Bond Buyers Getting Burned by Going Long as Yields Climb: Credit Markets", Bloomberg News

Financial markets

Types of markets	Primary market Secondary market Third market Fourth market

Types of stocks	Common stock Golden share Preferred stock Restricted stock Tracking stock

Share capital	Authorised capital Issued shares Shares outstanding Treasury stock

Participants	Broker-dealer Day trader Floor broker Floor trader Investor Market maker Proprietary trader Quantitative analyst Regulator Stock trader

Exchanges	Electronic communication network List of stock exchanges Opening times Multilateral trading facility Over-the-counter

Stock valuation	Alpha Arbitrage pricing theory Beta Bid–ask spread Book value Capital asset pricing model Dividend discount model Dividend yield Earnings per share Earnings yield Net asset value Security characteristic line Security market line T-model

Trading theories and strategies	Algorithmic trading Buy and hold Concentrated stock Contrarian investing Day trading Dollar cost averaging Efficient-market hypothesis Fundamental analysis Growth stock Market timing Modern portfolio theory Momentum investing Mosaic theory Pairs trade Post-modern portfolio theory Random walk hypothesis Sector rotation Style investing Swing trading Technical analysis Trend following Value investing

Related terms	Block trade Cross listing Dark liquidity Dividend Dual-listed company DuPont analysis Efficient frontier Flight-to-quality Haircut Initial public offering Margin Market anomaly Market capitalization Market depth Market manipulation Market trend Mean reversion Momentum Open outcry Public float Public offering Rally Returns-based style analysis Reverse stock split Share repurchase Short selling Slippage Speculation Stock dilution Stock market index Stock split Trade Uptick rule Volatility Voting interest Yield

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Long (finance)

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References