Difference between Secondary Offering and Short Selling?

Very, very different. If you are having confusion on these, you should probably re-read the material. Secondary offerings are releases of stock from a company that has already had an IPO. A short sale is borrowing a security to sell prior to purchasing the security (hoping that you can buy it cheaper than you sold it).
 
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Short selling entails you borrowing a stock when the price is highest so that you can sell it at that higher price, and then hoping that the price of the stock falls so that you can buy it back at a lower price so as to return it to the house that loaned it to you in the first place.
Secondry offering is well explained by JSD.
Cheers.
 
Sorry, meant something different, not short selling… closing out a long position, is that the same as a secondary offering? In which case, how is a secondary offering different to a secondary market? How do you then ascertain/differentiate between a share being sold for the second and say a third time? First time sale is obviously an IPO, but after that, I wasn’t aware anyone tracked how many times any given share has been traded.
 
IPO is in the primary market. Secondary offerings are those offerings after the initial offering that are issued and traded on the secondary market.
All issues apart from the IPO trades on the secondary market.
Closing out a long position involves your account being netted, and in the case where your account balance is not sufficient, you will be ask to make deposit to bring the account back to its maintainance marging.
Remember, you cannot default in a future market, so closing out entails paying for the security.
 
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