How is shorting stock allowed at all?

That's so 2008. The new fraud is being LONG in the market.

It's unreal the shit out here. MM doing trades minutes before the market opens and dropping the PPS 10 points, just so when the market opens stop losses go crazy and suddenly the PPS is 15 points lower than it closed within 30 seconds. Unreal.

I thought brokers could only "borrow" your stock if it was purchased on margin?

If you paid the full price using your own funds, then it is your property, and they cannot supply it to would-be shorters.

That's my understanding, anyway.

However, rules and law seem to have gone the way of the dodo bird these days, so who the fuck knows?

2008 the uptick rule was put in place by FAS-B along with the removal of mark-to-market. Which killed shorting anything and anything remotely like fair value. It's why some shithole companies like Apple and Facebook are individually worth more than the entire farming industry across the planet. Even though an iPad is about as necessary as tits on a bull.

..like the other anon points out, going long to print money is the scam. in the meanwhile watch unsustainable math rip apart departments and governments like tissue. Cheques should be bouncing like rubber balls again soon, or worse...not cover the cost of printing it.

It's mostly a bet, in the wall street casino

with euh oh volume , but without braking a barrier and filter it up

Small time speculators' ability to trade long and short equity, option, and future positions is the only consistent way informed "gamblers" can beat the house in any market I have ever participated (excluding housing itself).

However, small speculators do not move markets the way institutions and banks can. Many institutional funds have "no short" provisions. Blackstone should run this information as a PR piece during The O Reilly Factor.

Additionally, the short positions help keep inflated security values in check by offsetting long positions in the open market, where the actual pricing is set.

Most billionaires start out trading stocks. Even if they don't talk about it. The market can be beat. Open a Schwab account and use your political acuity to predict the foreign exchange currency market, or the S&P futures. Retire to Thailand and surround yourself with nymphs.

Without actually stealing other busy peeps

Shorting gold is still a-ok!

Uh oh 😓 I'm not

Just become a 'market maker', lol I love that term.

If you can erode 2% against TD's monthly Canadian/USD swap, and get a blowjob out of it, I'm not mad atcha. I got nothin but love for ya.

1) Make sure you are born into an "Insider" family.

2) Learn the ropes of how government REALLY works.

3) Use you "Inside" knowledge to front-run everything.

4) ?

5) PROFIT!!!

They created a way for them to make money in a bear market.

someone please help me with this !?!?!?!?!

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They created a way to destroy honest men and companies by the actions of highschool losers who aren't worth organ harvesting. lol!

It was the shorts who uncovered ENRON. Don't sell them short, they do their homework and uncover things within companies that make the company subject to problems.

A lot of time shorts try and warn the company, before they start shorting and, sadly, they are often ignored.

Fuck does Schwab pay affiliates? I think I could have converted 100 new clients with that plug.

But their Options Xpress platform is an old Chicago firm that is one of the best around. They don't give maximum leverage for FOREX, but if you don't know what that means, you don't need it.

Be fruitful. And don't pull out.

^This!^

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