[농업경제신문=임지혜 기자] According to the Korea Exchange, there were 548 short sales for two days by Eastern institutions. On the 18th, Dongbang shares closed at 6,990 won, up 1.30% from the previous day.
On the 15th, the balance amounted to 25,5141 cases, and the balance of short selling was 19,9265,1210 won.
Short selling is an investment strategy in which if the stock price of a particular stock is expected to fall, a stock is borrowed and a sell order is placed without holding the stock. It is a technique mainly used to target very short-term trading profits.
According to the Korea Stock Exchange, short selling refers to selling securities you do not own. In Korean stock markets, where non-borrowing short selling is prohibited, it generally means selling (borrowing short selling) borrowed securities.
Investors mainly use short selling to avoid (hedge) losses from falling prices of their own securities or to gain profits from selling overvalued securities.
Short selling, which eliminates the price bubble, is a necessary system for capital markets, but there are criticisms that the distrust of individual investors has increased as financial authorities have not closely monitored illegal short selling.
The Financial Services Commission plans to impose penalties as well as criminal penalties if they are caught selling illegally by applying the revised Capital Market Act Enforcement Decree. In addition, the inspection period for non-borrowing short sales is shortened from 6 months to 1 month.
[알림] This article is for reference only in investment decisions, and there is no responsibility for any investment loss based on this.
Reporter Lim Ji-hye [email protected]
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