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# Short

When you open a **Short** position on Unlimited Leverage, you're simulating the <mark style="color:blue;">**borrowing**</mark> of an asset and <mark style="color:blue;">**selling it**</mark> at the current price (<mark style="color:blue;">**Entry Price**</mark>). Later, when you close the position, you're simulating the <mark style="color:blue;">**buy-back**</mark> of the same amount of the traded asset at a new price (<mark style="color:blue;">**Mark Price**</mark>) to <mark style="color:blue;">**return**</mark> to the lender.

**If you can buy it back for less than what you sold it for, you make a profit.**

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**Short** positions are profitable when the <mark style="color:blue;">**Mark Price**</mark> of the asset is lesser than the <mark style="color:blue;">**Entry Price**</mark>.