Several skills important for shorting stocks say hedge funds

Shorting requires a trader to balance conviction in an idea and the desire to see it through to a profitable outcome with real risk management discipline

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Wide range of skills needed to short successfully

Matt Taylor, Kortright Capital Partners
We approach our long and short investments with the same set of criteria and the same investment process. We focus on small and mid-cap stocks at interesting and complex points in their corporate lives. Specifically, we look for companies in industries where we can do deep fundamental work but where some element of complexity related to either the balance sheet or corporate activity is causing market participants to look the other way.

Many event strategies

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