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More than one in four sophisticated retail investors are using shorting in their portfolios, according to a new study by GraniteShares.
As UK banks have struggled, more individuals are using shorting techniques - sometimes called short selling - to protect their portfolios against losses or to profit from falling share prices, GraniteShares says. Its research among sophisticated retail investors who regularly trade shares, bonds and funds found 26% of respondents have taken short positions in their portfolios. Around one in eight (12%) said they have used shorting specifically to protect their portfolios in falling markets. However 39% of respondents do not short, because they do not know how to or did not know it was possible
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