User 265213

Ban on Short Selling Could Have Negative Consequences for Options Market

Well aren't you guys dumber than a bag full of hammers. Just because you have no concept of risk management and have never hedged a position, shorted a stock or bought an option a day in your lives, doesn't mean these strategies and tools don't serve an incredibly important function in keeping the markets fluid and helping create the liquidity which benefits all traders, including you. Your comments show that you're obviously trading either very small sums of cash which don't need those protections, or that you are exposing yourselves to enormous risk on pure 'faith' (a dubious strategy in the best of times, but which in intimes of market volatility is guaranteed to result in losses).

You want simple answers, simple tools and a simple market, something which has never existed and never will. All this kind of anti-intellectual thinking does is result in the election of simple minded presidents, 'nuff said.

The funniest comment here is "gamblers make it hard for investors"..lol. Good grief, what do you think the stock market is, anyway? A guaranteed ATM if you just buy a stock and hold on tight? From the day the very first ship left Holland, and stocks in the venture were sold on the first stock exchange, it has always been a 'gamble' to invest in a company. Daytraders, large investment banks and hedge funds trade and flip stocks every second of every day, creating liquidity and volume which creates the market. Shorting has existed for over 300 years, don't you think there might be a reason for that, besides another dark conspiracy to keep you down? Do I really have to explain this? Liquidity permits volume and correct pricing of assets. Buying low and selling high is the formula for profit, and without shorting, assets become overvalued, only creating a bigger decline down the road. The goal of the money game is profit, not sure what you're here for. Sounds like you're looking for boogeymen and a witch hunt.

The 'four legs good, two legs bad" black/white thinking on display on these boards lately is truly frightening. Make a note for yourselves to go back and re-read Jesse Livermore and the other basic lessons. That old "evil shorters ate my stocks" mentallity is one I'd expect to see on a penny stock message board, not in comments of a supposedly intelligent site like Seeking Alpha. Good luck storming the castle, boys.

Banks on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Do anything you want, I have diplomatic immunity now that my trading headquarters are in Area 51, and I am protected from prosecution under securities laws by Native American treaties and Alien technology. Since I'm untouchable, I might as well admit that I'm also the cause of global warming, destruction of the ozone layer and the dread scourge known as the hearbreak of psoriasis. Pardon me if I don't answer you again, delightful though the experience has been. All of this evil-doing keeps me very very busy and takes up significant bandwidth.

Banks on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

ROFL...what is Evis trading these days?