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    quetzalcoatl
    Jul 20 05:08 PM
    Short Sales: SEC Turns Back the Clock to 1931 [view article]
    All I can say is the market scares the hell out of me. A long term investment is about an hour and a half. Predatory opportunism is the name of the game. Reply
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    mrtaxx
    Jul 20 04:59 PM
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    Short Sales: SEC Turns Back the Clock to 1931 [view article]
    Short sell stopped on 19 financial stocks, isn't that unjust, how about all the other stocks that are manipulated. Why do the financials get this break? Oh I know they control all the money. Another farce by the SEC, another useless government agency that doesn't know how to do their job or just keeps looking the other way. Reply
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    Richard
    Wendling
    Jul 20 04:52 PM
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    Short Sales: SEC Turns Back the Clock to 1931 [view article]
    The market makers and the specialist who runs these stocks are exempt from this short selling rule. That is like letting the fox be in charge of the key to the hen house. These two entities are the major players in the short selling of issues. For more information on how they do it click on my web link and read how it is done.

    Richard     Reply
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    TheBookkeepe
    r
    Jul 20 04:51 PM
    Short Sales: SEC Turns Back the Clock to 1931 [view article]
    However you slice it a naked short bet that pays off is somehow collecting counterfeited money. And if the short bet loses money, who gets that profit? The broker? There is no way that such practices could be being posted to a proper double entry bookkeeping framework of rules. Reply
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    User 138602
    Jul 18 09:33 AM
    SEC Shorting Restrictions: Are Some Banks Being Set Up? [view article]
    financials institutions do not want you to make money period. their buy signals means please buy it because we have lots of it and we would like to make sure than we meet expectations this quarter and their sell signals mean we just started to short these stocks. if you follow their advice they may sent you a nice bottle of scotch,funny that people still listen to their recommendations and act on it. a sucker is borned every second is so true Reply
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    PrudentMan
    Jul 18 09:19 AM
    SEC Shorting Restrictions: Are Some Banks Being Set Up? [view article]
    What is interesting is that ten of the nineteen or 53% are Foreign Banks!

    Then you have the GSE's so actually 60% of the Commercial Banks protected by The SEC are controlled Foreign Bank shareholders.

    How blatantly bias can the SEC be? If they did their job for the past ten years instead of being controlled by the "Street", which actually they always have been but not so blatantly, none of this would be necessary.

    For your readers who are not aware of this, the Federal Reserve Board does not examine banks. The Comptroller of the Currency (Treasury), FDIC (which is a government corporation financed by bank insurance premiums, and the various state regulators. So when you see the media and politicians complaining about the Fed's audit of banks (banks do have "independent"... auditors, which is a farce) they patently do not know of what they speak.     Reply
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    fxtrader07
    Jul 18 06:05 AM
    SEC Shorting Restrictions: Are Some Banks Being Set Up? [view article]
    As I pointed out elsewhere after that weird SEC-announcement: naked shorts ON Goldman get banned - but naked shorts BY Goldman do not.
    This is by far the most stunning display of financial apartheid ever displayed by the sec. they should abolish that institution alltogether as it is only catering to wallstreet's needs anyway.     Reply
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    Kinabalu
    Jul 17 06:00 PM
    SEC Shorting Restrictions: Are Some Banks Being Set Up? [view article]
    "Who is missing?"

    This is a typical SEC use of "moral suasion" rather than attacking a problem with prosecutorial zeal. The big financial institutions aren't where the problem short sellers are making their money. Those institutions have way too much float for the common short seller to move the market significantly. The big institutions just have more friends in high places to listen to their complaints and rationalizations about their stock prices.

    The real problem is with the smaller financial institutions. Anyone with a short position can come on Seeking Alpha and publish an article replete with factual errors and poor research and find a big enough following to make a dent in the smaller institutions stock price. If the SEC would quit telling everyone they don't have enough manpower to police naked shorts and just do it they could eliminate most of the problem. A substantial portion of the stock shorted today is either naked or the same shares borrowed two or three times over.

    Please note: Selling short by itself is not the problem. The problem is: 1) the people who propagate false information and rumors in order to profit from short sales; 2) selling short stock without having legitimately borrowed it first; and 3) investors who are long a stock held in a broker name need to realize that its not in their best interest to allow the broker to lend that stock to short sellers.     Reply
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    morgan77
    Jul 17 04:57 PM
    SEC Shorting Restrictions: Are Some Banks Being Set Up? [view article]
    How will the earnings report affect the financials on Monday?
    www.greenfaucet.com/tr...     Reply
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    muley101
    Jul 17 04:39 PM
    SEC Shorting Restrictions: Are Some Banks Being Set Up? [view article]
    Thanks for this article. Now I know why my usual day trading strategy for WM was not working today. They were not moving with the rest of the pack as indicated by the RKH and XLF ETFs. Reply
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    User 227727
    Jul 17 01:05 PM
    SEC Shorting Restrictions: Are Some Banks Being Set Up? [view article]
    Finally the SEC realized the destructive nature of speculative naked short selling (= self-fulfilling prophecy?)
    Better late than never.
    When will other agencies apply similar braking to oil and other commodity trading? Why have they sat on their hands so far? Is it due to the 'influence' of the trading 'mafia'?     Reply
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    muley101
    Jul 16 11:36 PM
    Writedowns and Capital Raised by Financial Firms [view article]
    Yep, I'd like to see a comparison of C and WM showing total loan portfolio vs % of writedowns. WM should have the same or more bad loans as C as a % of total, especially since most of their loans are on the west coast and Florida. It that is true then there is no way they can survive and their recent statements regarding sufficient liquidity should send their board to jail. Reply
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    jimsep
    Jul 16 01:19 PM
    The SEC Panics [view article]
    Confusion reigns.

    Naked short selling has been illegal forever.

    It is also difficult to do as no prime broker will allow it. There is very little of it going on. The author obviously doesn't know what he is talking about.

    Blaming shorts for what is happening to financial stocks is nonsense.

    Blame the managements who made risky loans. Blame the regulators who were asleep at the switch. Blame Congress for enacting legislation which put pressure on lenders to act imprudently.

    This country has bankers who do not know how to make loans, an auto industry that cannot make an auto anybody wants or needs, an airline industry that cannot price their service adequately and a homebuilder industry that doesn't know how to stop building in the face of sharply reduced demand and much larger supply.

    That's why we are in trouble.     Reply
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    Fugi Joe
    Jul 16 10:23 AM
    Preferred Stocks: Boring...But Safe [view article]
    I agree that these several of these issues are not priced in line with reality. It appears that the shorts are also active in this market. Merrill, in particular, has plenty of assets to unload to make payments. If they ever want to access the debt and preferred markets again, they probably will make sure to make the payments. This company cannot afford a junk rating. Yields are now around 12%. Buying into earnings is a decent speculation that takes some courage. The uncertainty is causing a temporary opportunity. They are likely to placate everyone in regard to insolvency. The huge brokers and bank will not be allowed to fail; that is not how this country works. Reply
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    Eric Fox
    Jul 16 08:37 AM
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    The SEC Panics [view article]
    Interesting list of companies:

    BNP Paribas Securities Corp. BNPQF or BNPQY
    Bank of America Corporation BAC
    Barclays PLC BCS
    Citigroup Inc. C
    Credit Suisse Group CS
    Daiwa Securities Group Inc. DSECY
    Deutsche Bank Group AG DB
    Allianz SE AZ
    Goldman, Sachs Group Inc GS
    Royal Bank ADS RBS
    HSBC Holdings PLC ADS HBC and HSI
    J. P. Morgan Chase & Co. JPM
    Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. LEH
    Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. MER
    Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. MFG
    Morgan Stanley MS
    UBS AG UBS
    Freddie Mac FRE
    Fannie Mae FNM     Reply

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