long position

English

Noun

long position (plural long positions)

1. (finance) A financial instrument bought with the expectation that it will increase in value.

   Coordinate term: short position

   • 2011 July 18, John Cassidy, “Mastering the Machine”, in The New Yorker‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 September 2026:

     Among the bets the Pure Alpha fund placed last year were long positions in Treasury bonds, the Japanese yen, and gold, and short positions in the euro and European sovereign debt.

Translations

Translations

• Bulgarian: дълга позиция f (dălga pozicija)
• Czech: dlouhá pozice f
• Polish: pozycja długa f

Further reading

• long (finance) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• John Smullen, Nicholas Hand, editors (2005), “long position”, in A Dictionary of Finance and Banking, 3rd edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 248