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What Pushed the SEC to Tighten the Rules - Now? [view article]
Someone mentioned in another post that the Shanghai stock market is an excellent example as shorts are not allowed in this market, thus causing it to crash by more than 50 percent.Manipulators will push up the stock and then let it crash when you least expect. Many small investors have been massacred in this manner by the big boys.
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What Pushed the SEC to Tighten the Rules - Now? [view article]
Of course, if shareholders feel that they don't mind lending their shares out for those who want to short, there should be nothing to stop them as this is a free country. Then there should be disclosure as to who is lending the scrip and who is borrowing them. This is information which is very relevant to ensure that a major shareholder does not hold the shares and gets someone else to short it (essentially creating a synthetic short position). In addition, shareholders should be given the choice if they;d like to lend their shares and be paid for it at a price which reflects the true demand and supply of the shares. Also, I'd like to see trustees/custodians of pension and discretionary funds make it a point to ensure that they are exercise the right fiduciary duties in protecting the rights of the shares owned by their clients managed by them. ReplyWhat Pushed the SEC to Tighten the Rules - Now? [view article]
Takayama, I don't understand how banning short selling will cause a stock market bubble. Like I said before, if a company is badly run, the shareholders can either sell their stock or adopt an activist stand to improve the management. There is no bubble to speak of. Are you suggesting that there are enough silly people out there that will keep buying overvalued companies? If a company is overvalue, then investors just move on to an undervalued company. If they cannot find any good value in the listed companies, then just stay in cash.Please support your claim how shorting equities actually supports an efficient market.
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What Pushed the SEC to Tighten the Rules - Now? [view article]
Short selling is a must for an efficient market. Those who ask for shorts to be banned are asking for another stock market bubble.They should instead buy in at the lows, and kill the shorts. A good money making opportunity from short squeezes.
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What Pushed the SEC to Tighten the Rules - Now? [view article]
Well you know what's going to happen now.After sitting on their ass while the shit hit the fan - now they will jump in and go overboard and end screwing things up worse than ever. Reply
What Pushed the SEC to Tighten the Rules - Now? [view article]
I think the US is perhaps the most laxed country in acknowledging the systemic risk of allowing short selling in the world - many 'less developed' countries have certain rules about it that protect the shareholders e.g. from outright ban to being clear about stock lending and borrowing practices by clearing house.Well, would this conversely suggest that equities is quite highly undervalued in this particular market (assuming that there was this biasness to bring value down)? I've been long on the financials since April/May and perhaps this might be a good case to put more money in US equities?? Reply
What Pushed the SEC to Tighten the Rules - Now? [view article]
About 2 wks ago, UK's equivalent to SEC invoked a rule on short-selling on those issues with rights in circulation. The results were good; perhaps SEC was merely following this lead. ReplyWhat Pushed the SEC to Tighten the Rules - Now? [view article]
About the time I think I've seen it all - this blows me away.I would gladly lead the firing squad for those responsible for these "rules". And I am a flaming right wing capitalist - as little gov't meddling as possibile but this is allowing Grand Theft and if the SEC does anything it should not permit this to go on.
I still can't believe it.
In the 70's I lost money on a second mortgage - con men had encumbered the same property 30 times.
They went to jail - I considered deadly force but was afraid the sheriff would take away my badge. Reply
Canaccord Raises Research in Motion's Estimates [view article]
ballsy call here given he has no way of knowing what iPhone demand will do to BB demand. I agree with his premise that iPhone will end up helping BB sales due to more attention to the space and the much lower price for a Pearl or Curve. Add more flexible data pricing on some carriers for BB data plans and this really makes sense. Also, how does limited supply of iPhones help RIM. Maybe RIM steals a few potential iPhone buyers if they can get it out sooner than later. (Of course ATT will bend over backwards to delay the Bold in favor of the iPhone) This will be interesting to watch. ReplyWhat Pushed the SEC to Tighten the Rules - Now? [view article]
Making it a requirement to provide documented evidence that the Short sellor has permission to sell the stock is in pending legislation. If passed this will end the sell of stock or company shares by third parties without the shareholder's permission. There is pending "lending" restrictions as well.... Congress is under the pressure in both parties of loosing their seats/standing in up coming elections this year and next year, yes they bend to lobbyist, but not when their own jobs and party control of Congress is suspect.. so, this may be one positive coming from an election year... that commonsense laws get passed for a while.. ReplyWhat Pushed the SEC to Tighten the Rules - Now? [view article]
Let's just make a rule that stocks etc can only go up. That would solve all these problems. Or even better, let US gov to come up with such a rule ReplyWhat Pushed the SEC to Tighten the Rules - Now? [view article]
SEC Naked Shorts(NK) rules prohibit shorting unless there is an uptick in stock being gang raped by hedge funds. The uptick suggests buy activity of this same stock. Meaning the NKs must cover there NK positions since the underlying borrowed stock no longer existed (changed owner) at their broker/bank market maker. If this is not happening (can be easily verified by SEC investigators), and the NKs are benefiting from both end of the trades, Then a conspiracy to defraud is in the making as well as a breach of inside trading rules. Lets put an end to this activity by finding the perpetrators and show them no mercy. ReplyChannel Checks Show Blackberry Sales Not Pressured by iPhone [view article]
Help me here... iPhone has been sold out since May in all stores, and the 3G sold out in all AT&T stores and most Apple stores on Saturday...Our nearest AT&T dealer (in a small town in Oregon) has been out since mid-day Saturday, and is now only taking special orders, as they don't expect regular stocking for 4 - 6 weeks.
I heard the same story all over the US. Neither RIMM nor any other device I know of has ever come close to a million sales in two days...
I like Blackberry - but I love iPhone. BTW, I have been with Verizon since they were Airtouch, have a family plan with four lines, and love their service - but I am going to have to switch to AT&T - because Verizon made the unbelievably stupid move of refusing Apple when they offered them the iPhone first...
As to RIMM - this article is more whistling in the dark past the graveyard at midnight. The hard-core crackberries will never give them up - but then, there is still an "Apple II Forever" programming cult - and one for Newton...
The questions raised above by posters are all good ones - and I think we shall see the results shortly.
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What Pushed the SEC to Tighten the Rules - Now? [view article]
Just because short selling so called improves liquidity does not necessarily make it fair and a desirable mechanism. Let's be clear about the difference between a concept (that liquidity is a desirable trait for the market) and what is an execution mechanism (naked short selling or even not naked, do shareholders know that their stocks are being lent?). Reply20 Guidelines for the Individual Investor [view article]
I like the article especially in this speculative period. Reply