Speculators Who Are Short

question 29

Multiple Choice

Speculators who are short

• A)expect prices to rise
• B)are not seeking capital gains
• C)are hedging their long positions
• D)anticipate lower prices

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Definitions:

Cognitive-behavioural

A therapeutic approach that addresses dysfunctional emotions, behaviors, and cognitions through a goal-oriented, systematic procedure.

Schemata

Cognitive structures that represent knowledge and beliefs about objects, people, and situations, guiding processes such as perception and memory.

Fearlessness Hypothesis

A theory that suggests that psychopaths have a higher threshold for feeling fear than other people. Events that make most people anxious (such as the expectation of being punished) seem to have little or no effect on psychopaths.

Threshold

The level of strength a stimulus must reach to be detected, or the point at which a physiological or psychological effect begins to be produced.