Shorting against the box is not the only way to lock in a gain.

Fairfield lost money in the early 1970's by shorting some highflying growth stocks.

However, shorting is also used to speculate on the success of a merger involving stock swaps.

Even she felt it, and through her, so did I, a buzz of power shorting out, like a circuit breaker flipping.

Engineers discovered the snake had "crawled into the tuning unit, shorting the circuit."

Don't you know there's no way to shut that monster off, except by shorting out the electrical system with a screwdriver!"

Because so many participants were not actively trading, few players dared bet against the bullish sentiment by shorting the market.

Hot propellant poured into the tail section, shorting the wiring and shutting down all the engines.

By shorting stocks, managers could cushion the portfolio if the market dropped, while still reaping gains elsewhere when it rose.

As the accessory lacks any power of its own, there's no risk of "shorting" the exposed connector.

In order to prevent shocks, most very large capacitors are shipped with shorting wires that need to be removed before they are used.

There was a fizzle of shorting circuitry, a thrashing whirr of damaged mechanisms.

He made friends with a C.G.H. Shorting, whom he took as a private pupil.

These traders tend to buy the shares of the company being purchased, and hedge their bets by shorting the shares of the acquirer.

In shorting the portapack terminals, Chekov had forced it to yield up everything it had, including the seed current it kept for recharging.

It dries so much faster out of nooks and cracks, and it has much less risk of shorting out consumer electronics.

He may also be responsible for the occasional desperate touch intended to whip up interest, such as the noises heard between scenes, noises that sound like high-tension wires shorting out, harmlessly.

This investment thesis was expressed by purchasing credit default swaps against the securitizations he deemed to be most unstable, which essentially was a manner of shorting the bonds using synthetic instruments.

He was also directly responsible for Garth losing his arm and was defeated when his siblings combined their powers into one massive burst, seemingly shorting him out and removing his powers.

Also called risk arbitrage, merger arbitrage generally consists of buying/holding the stock of a company that is the target of a takeover while shorting the stock of the acquiring company.

Since the delta of underlying asset is always 1.0, the trader could delta-hedge his entire position in the underlying by buying or shorting the number of shares indicated by the total delta.

Setting up the heavy equipment scanner to pick up my own locator tag was the hard part, but I managed it by shorting out the safety access circuit and removing one wall from the inspection chamber.

Then at any time t you can unwind your obligation for the forward contract by shorting another forward with the same delivery date to get the difference in forward prices, but discounted to present value: .

The NASDAQ crashed from 5000 back to 1200; many of the less-experienced traders went broke, although obviously it was possible to have made a fortune during that time by shorting or playing on volatility.

Hedge funds, on the other hand, have been flocking to the volatile sector, and rapidly buying, selling and shorting as BetOnSports makes headlines, according to bankers in London who specialize in the sector.

"Right in the middle of a crisis and they have to short me.

Investors who short the market are betting that prices will fall.

But shorting is not explained until the second half of the book.

Either communications were shorting out, or he had turned away.

The wires shorted and every light in the house went out.

By 1973, the highway had been shorted to 10.7 miles.

First, shorting the stock of your own company is illegal.

Something had shorted out, he said, so we needed a new computer for the stove.

A main wire would go dead after it shorted three times.

"It must have been shorted out when we were caught in the energy net."

He shorted them on their checks and there was nothing they could do about it.

To fire the flash, these two pieces are shorted together.

"Something's shorted out the power to all of the sensors."

Why pay if you can get the same benefits by shorting without borrowing?

Those who believe that the company will not cover the cost of the plant until next year might have shorted the stock, he said.

So far, shorting is still a specialists' game, but a growing one.

There was a problem with some of the computer circuits shorting.

By the next chow call everybody who's ever been shorted will be coming over to us.

He says initially each trip took an hour, which has been shorted to 45-50 minutes.

It caught Jay on the side of the head and shorted out all thought.

On more than one occasion I would have shorted myself thousands of dollars.

Shorting the lights out, therefore, should not be to his advantage.

"The cars were shorting out, and every one did something different.

The currently 8 rounds will be shorted down to 7.

Electrical power had shorted out in most areas of the stadium.

All he needed was some water, and he'd short out the field.

From what she could sense, any three of them would be enough to short out the house's entire system.

No reason to short out everyone else on the system if you could avoid it.

Maybe I could find something to short out the fence.

That will short out all the lights in this section.

A large enough ball of ants will short out some systems.

"It will be best to take Short out of here," suggested the physician.

The amenities of civilization are a little short out there.

At least it won't short out the rest of the fence.

"But what if it can short out a phaser the same way?"

Whether he stopped short out of decency or weakness is never quite clear.

Higher than that and we could short out the cooling fins on top.

Either communications were shorting out, or he had turned away.

At some point the water level became high enough to short out the main electrical distribution panel.

Never use a heat rock as they can often cause thermal burns and are known to short out.

The water spreads and causes the tape player to short out.

Something had shorted out, he said, so we needed a new computer for the stove.

"It must have been shorted out when we were caught in the energy net."

How did the hackers manage to short out his laptop?

"Something's shorted out the power to all of the sensors."

I hope we didn't short out the entire town,she thought, then leaned forward and threw up.

It's going to short out some stuff, I'm sure.

It caught Jay on the side of the head and shorted out all thought.

"I would not have wanted to short out our instruments," the pilot breathes.

"The cars were shorting out, and every one did something different.