- Short - Selling: It is to borrow and sell. From the singapore context, i think that Short-selling can only lasts for T+3. Which means you have to close the position within 3 days and your technical analysis or hunch must be damn zhun! An example will be like today - Monday 04 June 2012. If you see how the US stock markets fare last friday [A near 300 point drop for Dow Jones], you can roughly guess the impact it will have on stock markets on Monday.
- Buying Put warrants / options: To be honest, i am not ...
Total Massacre out there! Who have not been spared?!
Anyway, an idea came to my mind... Why do we only think of buying when stock markets go up? Why not capitalize on them when they come down?
According to my past experiences.. There are 3 methods to do that in stock markets: