Personal opinions about the financial markets
1. Nobody seems to be pointing out that many short sellers use the excess proceeds after margin, to go long something else. 2. Though it keeps getting mentioned that shorts can create synthetic positions in the derivative markets, WHY would you want to, when a large portion of the selling pressure in the underlying market … Read more Short Selling
Until they realize this actually stemmed from the stock bubble, and not the housing bubble ….they aren’t going to get around the problem. They will just keep rewarding those that made irrational decisions and punish those that made rational ones to stabilize overpriced markets…and the cycle continues. Over the last 8 years, this was easy … Read more Housing not the problem
If a brokerage is refusing to supply the stock for the short sellers so they can short the stocks legally, doesn’t that kind of seem like market manipulation right there? I hold a large chunk of stock, and then have the ability to artificially limit selling pressures on that stock….Hmmmm.
If you look at a long term chart going back to early 1900’s, the overall general uptrend in the DOW should have put us at 10,500 right about now. This would be an historically normal range along the long term trend line, but the markets never fully corrected after the Nasdaq bubble burst. Investors rolled … Read more Way Overpriced