When you buy the corn from the cash market, you can sell short a futures contract of the same amount com on the futures market in anticipation of the com prices falling.

当你在现货市场上买入玉米时，你可同时在期货市场上卖出一张等同数置的玉米期货合同，因为你预测玉米价格将会下降。

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Parties who have sold a futures contract are said to have taken a short position.

出售期货合约的出售者被认为是处在市场空头。

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A position in which the trader has bought a futures contract that does not offset a previously established short position.

交易者购买的一个期货合同不冲销先前建立的空头部位。

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Overnight action saw the December Comex gold futures contract push through short-term resistance from the 20-day moving average, which is a minor near term bullish technical signal.

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However, so long as both the long and short positions are equally leveraged, the price of the futures contract will not change very much because there are just as many forced buyers as forced sellers.

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The USDX futures contract is designed to replicate the performance of being short the US Dollar against the following currencies: Euro, Japanese Yen, British Pound, Canadian Dollar, Swedish Krona and Swiss Franc.

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