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    Did short ban on financials help or hurt?

    you are correct. stock market makers where exempt from this order
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    Did short ban on financials help or hurt?

    short ban 9/18/2008 the option market maker could short on 9/22/08 with this admentment http://sec.gov/rules/other/2008/34-58611.pdf
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    Did short ban on financials help or hurt?

    didn't it take a couple days for the sec to give the option market makers an exemption? The first could days of this ban seemed more volatile then after the market maker exemption was put in. the sec has said they don't care if stocks go up and down, but they wanted to reduce volatility...
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    US is the new Japan?

    there debt to gdp is well over 100%, so i do hope they have something to cover that
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    Another Angle to Today's Close

    I don’t care about Alaska. I care that people will see one of the most Sr. Republicans convicted of fraud. Your gonna hear about this for the next week out of every democrat whose running for office. Its only 7 days left, and the market has moved higher based on “good polling by mccain”...
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    Another Angle to Today's Close

    I know people will get a kick out of this but im serious. reason the market dumped at 3:55pm was becuase Ted Stevens was found guilty on all counts. Look at the move in Big oil at the same time. But a guilty republican is not good for Mcain, palian or the whole republican party for the...
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    Starting out in Prop Trading

    its $8 to register a domain name. if you make it big whats $8? And you may not get your "same result" looks more professional when you have an email address from mark.smith@apextrading.com. just a thought
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    Is this why Alan Greenspan and Bush wanted to privatize Social Security?

    Id rather SS be private and all my investment in LEH stock. At least if i died my heirs would get .17 at todays price. I forgot about the portability feature. thas nice
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    Is this why Alan Greenspan and Bush wanted to privatize Social Security?

    I'm going to make a bold call here. This is my Joe Namath call................................... ready??? If the government made social security private, im guessing there would be an option to buy government bonds in there. WOW, you heard it here first, the government would not make...
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    No rate cut tomorrow, look out below.

    capital gains? i wish i had any capital gains this year. Look on the bright side, the capital losses you can take next year will be much higher % you can deduct
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    No rate cut tomorrow, look out below.

    you do know that you can trade pre market, right? last 3 fed unexpected cuts where wither at 8:15 or 8:17 am be ready and buy the market if it happens
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    They just banned short selling in US

    SEC is "investigating" the false press report
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    They just banned short selling in US

    Hey hugo, Its called the first amendment. if you don't like it move somewhere else. OK maybe the feds will investigate and ask the reporter where he got his source. *****breaking news***** a reporter will never give up there sources. Make you have a screw loose with your naked...
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    They just banned short selling in US

    and i guess the reporters of valerie plane should give up there source? media is wrong all the time. but you have to take the good and bad. you cant cherry pick what you like off the CNN website, and charge the rest with fraud. if so move to china I got that rumor and got my locate on...
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    They just banned short selling in US

    wow, where did you find this website. it looks very professional and serious. ive been getting my news for the last 10 years from WSJ, not anymore now that i found deepcapture. i guess facts just get in the way of your stories, so this is the best you can come up with
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    They just banned short selling in US

    yeah i heard the same thing you did on fast money yesterday. they where saying it just shows that these evil short sellers are not minting $$$ it as we all think they are. they make some crappy long bets and some bad shorts. Looks like he got lucky in LEH, but at least he gave everyone 4...
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    They just banned short selling in US

    where is all this naked short selling in Lehman? the short intrest was never above 5% at its peak in Lehman. How was it ever hard to find shares to borrow for Lehman? Why would anyonce Naked short the stock? If naked short sellers (not short sellers) brought this company down, where is the...
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    They just banned short selling in US

    yes they are. both times when i went there i can confirm i saw at least 1 cash register
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    They just banned short selling in US

    Look IBM, my theory is that people didnt realize they have a big financing compnent to there business and when they saw that they headed for the exits. There investor relations went out of there way to tell everyone they where a finance stock
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    Bloomberg or CNBC

    with out question cnbc MOVES markets, if your going to trade the couple events off tv a week go with CNBC. And pay no attention to people who tell you, you cant make money off the tv i probally made about 20% of my year off cnbc, and i trade news for a living. they have some good sources.
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