Comments on: Banning Short Selling

By: Sunday links: short ban redux Abnormal Returns

Sunday links: short ban redux Abnormal Returns — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:43:58 +0000

[...] Just look what happened the last time the Feds banned short selling. (Big Picture) [...]

By: Trading Eights » What to Read on July 4, 2009

Trading Eights » What to Read on July 4, 2009 — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 12:11:07 +0000

[...] Banning Short Selling — Barry Ritholtz – Short selling is extremely important, for the reasons Ritholtz mentions plus one more that I will discuss in my forthcoming book. Shame on the government! [...]

By: Onlooker from Troy

Onlooker from Troy — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:17:46 +0000

Nope, I don’t. I was an airline pilot for a bit, before getting laid off. I now have chronic and occasionally severe back problems that have taken me out of the game. Have fun. It is an expensive hobby and I’ve never done it recreationally due to the pretty high cost for the average Joe.

By: manhattanguy

manhattanguy — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:06:11 +0000

Onlooker: That’s great. Do you still fly? I noticed a ton of people bring their own planes to fly out of the airport today. I wonder what the ownership cost would be to own a plane (maintenance+insurance+club+hangar fee etc).

By: catman

catman — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:42:29 +0000

Personally this is some of the most annoying bullshit of all time. Executing a short sale is a huge pain in the ass for an individual. I searched high and low for a web broker that would do it back in the day. When I found one my executions were slow and suspect. I can’t believe the average hedge fund, prop desk or market maker had this problem. I found Grzzx and (eg) twm and got my hedges done, but this continued posturing just stinks.

By: Onlooker from Troy

Onlooker from Troy — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:38:16 +0000

manhattanguy

U.S. Air Force, Retired

By: Andy T

Andy T — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:09:31 +0000

It’s really quite difficult to fathom that the SEC/gov’t could be THAT stupid, again. It really, really boggles the mind. If they really do anything to restrain short-selling, I would recommend that everyone short the SP futures on any bounce from that “new development” and then brace for the move to 600.

By: ted butler

ted butler — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:58:21 +0000

From a year ago. Reasonable people can disagree

http://www.investmentrarities.com/ted_butler_comentary/07-21-08.html

By: constantnormal

constantnormal — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:28:15 +0000

@ MEH 2:14 pm

Amen, bro’

By: Mark E Hoffer

Mark E Hoffer — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:14:55 +0000

yon’ cdskiller,

good point, and, seriously NFK.

this, current schema, is no way to run a Whorehouse.
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as an aside, manhattanguy, I’d advise that you get your License this Summer. You’ll never regret it. though, in those 150s, pack a chute, and stay out of Weather/Higher Winds. Past that, the change in POV is worth multiples of the cost.
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w/that, yon’ Coals are up, and I’m off. We’d do well cogitating on whether we are Independent or In Depenpence, and remembering that, too, many don’t need wonder about it, they’re reminded Every Day.