Short

To "go short" means to sell with the expectation that the price will fall. In stocks, this means borrowing shares from someone, selling them, and buying them back cheaper later. In forex, it's simpler — you just click the "sell" button. Because every forex quote is already a pair (you're buying one currency and selling the other), shorting a pair is just buying the quote currency and selling the base. Shorts profit when prices fall. A short on EUR/USD opened at 1.1000 and closed at 1.0900 makes 100 pips of profit. Shorts work identically to longs in forex — same spreads, same leverage, no borrow fees. Beginners often shy away from shorting because it "feels weird" to profit from a falling market. That hesitation is expensive — in forex, half of all trades need to be shorts, because markets fall as often as they rise.