Many of you have already faced with the idea of Short selling, or “going short”. In this article, we want to explain you all the nuances in order to put the pieces back together.

Short selling is used by traders when they have confidence in the depreciation of one currency. Let's say you know that the rate of a certain currency is going to fall and want to gain profit on this. In such case, you are just setting a sell order on a currency pair where a quote currency, in your opinion, will lose its value. If it does, after some time, you will close this order to make money.

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