Posted by 20 September 2008

Picking Your Spots When Selling Short

“Nobody makes money in a true bear market, not even the bears“ | The action this week got me thinking that I need to write a Duru-like missive on shorting. But since I don’t have a Ph.D you’ll just have to suffer through the following rant which I’ll try to keep relatively short. Yesterday Howard [...]

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Posted by 19 September 2008

SEC Halts Short Selling of 799 Financial Stocks — Here’s the List

The SEC just put out a press release detailing the temporary ban on short selling of a huge list of financial stocks. I took the liberty of copying & pasting the text of the PDF that lists all the stocks that can’t be shorted from now until October 2, 2008. The list , which is [...]

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Posted by 18 September 2008

SEC to Ban All Short Selling???

I just got wind of the latest absurdity being kicked around by the SEC — they’re allegedly thinking of banning short-selling all togetherr: Amid the spiraling market crisis and mounting pressure from lawmakers, the Securities and Exchange Commission is considering taking the dramatic step of temporarily banning the routine practice of betting against company stocks. [...]

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Posted by 5 June 2006

Shorting NYSE Stocks

I just noticed that for the second time in about a week Ugly posted about not getting filled on an order to short an NYSE stock. Last week he missed an entry on AMR and today he missed TIE. Today he pointed out that: I was way ahead of this one and I tried to [...]

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Posted by 27 October 2005

Is NetFlix (NFLX) a Short?

So Jim wants to know if Netflix “look like a good short or put candidate here.” This is a tough call for me. It would be much easier for me to call it a short if the 50-day moving average and the lower Bollinger Band weren’t so close by. In fact, the stock bounced off [...]

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