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Combating Cascading Short Spirals

Actually, the so-called 'circuit-breaker' is little more than a 'short-appeaser'.
Such a mechanism allows a stock to be shorted down as much as 20% on a given day before a 3-day trading hiatus kicks in.
Shorts can gouge out up to 20% before the circuit breaker kicks in. Why should this be permissible? Over 5 trading days of continuous assault, a stock could be decimated.
If the stock is only shorted down to 19% on a given day, no 'circuit-breaker' activates.
This is not acceptable.
The SEC must ban shorts now in line with major European partners.
It's time for longterm investors to have their investments protected and for companies to be valued for their fundamentals, not devalued via lies and innuendo.

Can the Banking System Handle Huge New Write-Downs?

So sad all this talk about 'predatory' lending.
Most folks knew full well what they were getting into and welcomed the chance to get a mortgage.

Combating Cascading Short Spirals

Let's stop the shorts in their tracks BEFORE they decimate another business.
Cox, get some balls and ban them, just like the UK and many other countries did.

Paulson in a State of Panic

Shorts bring no value.
They destroy companies and the economy.

Latest On Hedge Funds, Banks And Bailouts [Housing Tracker]

I have NO sympathy for the manipulative hedgefunds and disloyal shorts who've caused a run on the banks. The SEC needs to grow some gonads and get these people. Good riddance!

Fannie and Freddie Did Not Cause This Crisis

...short and distort campaign. Now all the hedgies and shorts point fingers at EVERYONE ELSE!

It's a classic. Can't you people see?

Fannie and Freddie Did Not Cause This Crisis

Lets not downplay the impact of David Einhorn's

Fannie and Freddie Did Not Cause This Crisis

Goddamn speculative shorts:

www.deepcapture.com/th.../

So the Perpetrators Are Now Our Saviors?

Cuomo in NY is investigating the likelihood that CDS market was manipulated by hedges colluding to weaken the apparent creditworthiness of financials. Could this have happened to many of the banks in peril, or is this unrelated?

See this article:

www.efinancialnews.com...

So the Perpetrators Are Now Our Saviors?

Let's not forget, we really have no accurate way of determining the value of these mortgage bundles.

That is a hell of a lot different from saying they have NO value as is alleged by the shorts who basically caused a run on the banks.

Hence, WB is fetching a fine price today and the shares are jumping.

Now it's time to look at FNM and FRE with a fresh eye.

Remember, most of their mortgages were originated WAY before this valuation issue was trumpeted by the buglers of doom.

Fear and Greed: Premise for Capitulation and Overreaction

If short-selling isn't detrimental, why this:
news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20...

Fear and Greed: Premise for Capitulation and Overreaction

Let's have some discourse on just why the various countries have banned short-selling if it is so beneficial in terms of reduced volatility, establishing fair values, etc., etc.

Anyone?

Fear and Greed: Premise for Capitulation and Overreaction

wpdragon, If the gov't makes no distinction between the damaging potential of short sellers vis-a-vis naked shorts in banning them both, why should I have to be concerned with what is, perhaps, not much more than a semantic distinction?

Both types of shorts are pernicious and create very negative financial 'karma' in the market and must be tightly regulated, if not outlawed, to create a positive, and growing, market.

Enough of these negative types spreading rumors and hoping that particular stocks, and possibly the country, fail just to maximize their short returns.

Yeah, I pissed off about what they've done.

Fear and Greed: Premise for Capitulation and Overreaction

Sure, folks should have the right to purchase a number of protective puts matching their long position in a particular stock, but that's it.

I encourage interested investors to contact their representatives and the SEC regarding continuing a short selling ban.

Further, the SEC should publish shortsellers short lists under the freedom of information act and put a robust uptick law in place, now.

How Much Are Fannie and Freddie to Blame?

Franklin Raines also got a tidy sum as well.

Let's not forget his bonus.

Couldn't that have been a tiny factor in all this?

Hopefully, the FBI can get some of that money in a nice clawback of sorts.