{"id":4309,"date":"2023-03-15T23:55:50","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T23:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fisdomdevel.wpengine.com\/glossary\/position\/"},"modified":"2023-03-15T23:55:50","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T23:55:50","slug":"position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/position\/","title":{"rendered":"Position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nPosition refers to taking a stance by either buying or selling a security based on the price trajectory and their individual forecast. In trading, a trader can take one of two positions namely, a long position and a short position. A long position is an act of buying a security to potentially sell it at profit at a future date. <\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, a short position is an act of selling security first with the anticipation of squaring it off by buying the security at a lower cost to earn profits. <\/p>\n<p>Seasonal traders usually take multiple trading positions on a single day or the trading week or their target period and analyse their performance at the end of such period by considering the net outcome of all such positions.<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Position refers to taking a stance by either buying or selling a security based on the price trajectory and their individual forecast. In trading, a trader can take one of two positions namely, a long position and a short position. A long position is an act of buying a security to potentially sell it at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-investing-essentials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}