tomterrific

Why Punish the Whistle Blower?

user 267997 and Phrrrrzzzppt. You are both idiots. Markets don't work very well without short sellers. Market makers, new ipo issuers put and call market makers as well as regular short sellers short sell. As Wilbur Ross said yesterday on CNBC, banning short selling sets and terrible precedent and is irrational. If you can't figure that out without thinking about it you are in the wrong business. Stocks drop and rise because buyers and sellers are agreeing to buy and sell at a higher or lower price. For every sale, short or long there is a buyer or else there is no market. Now if you can understand that then you ought to understand that once a short seller has sold the only thing he can do is nothing or buy it back from another seller. Lord where do you idiots come form. Are you Congressmen?

Short Selling Ban Welcome

As Wilbur Ross on CNBC today said. Banning short selling is a terrible precedent and irrational. If you don't understand that there is little you will understand and the best thing for you to do is to get out of this business.

Apple Investors: Fasten Your Seatbelts, Put On Helmets

The guys bashing short sellers or guys who come up with the idea that maybe this stock should be sold are usually self proclaiming idiots. They know little about the markets or trading and don't seem to even grasp the most basic things. For example I bet 50% or more of the short seller bashers have no clue that when there is a short sell their is a buyer on the other side, otherwise there is no transaction. Short sellers provide liquidity and the only thing they can do after selling the stock is to do nothing or buy it back. Short sellers actually provided a bullish bias if they are wrong on their thesis or their timing. To my eyes it may be little late to short sell AAPL. It was a much better sell around 175 in August, unless we have a longer term bear market. We might? Who knows?