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Finance Dictionary and Glossary of Investment Terms
Long position
Definition 1.
Owning or holding options (i.e., the number of contracts bought exceeds the number of contracts sold). For equities, a long position occurs when an individual owns securities. An owner of 1,000 shares of stock is said to be "Long the stock." Related: Short position.
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Definition 2.
The state of actually owning a security, contract, or commodity. also called long. opposite of short.
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