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When a stock goes down in price, the short seller makes money. That chart is one of thousands I could post that proves that stocks do take a tumble every now and then, sometimes pretty dramatically. Good luck.

Your thesis is absurd as proven by the chart. Posting my own personal trades wouldn't come close to demonstrating that as well as that chart. If I may ask, do you actually trade and if so, what?

"Short any security and hold it for a few days. I guarantee that regardless of external market conditions or news related to the stock, the price will not go down below the price paid by the short seller." You must be kidding. Hypothetical example. Early December, '06: "Click" short...

"Those big red volume bars may not be just the legitimate selling of regular shares, but all out shorting too. The crowd is probably shorting all they can and surely the trade will turn against them. " The only thing that I know of that causes those long red candles on high volume is...

"i'm trying to understand the who loses when stocks are shorted..." In theory, no one loses. When you short a stock, you're borrowing it to sell and buy it back at a lower price. (Naked short selling is an entirely different matter...in that case you're shorting shares that don't exist.)...

Thanks. I was thinking it was a shooting star. Maybe that's the same thing. Will look for confirmation tomorrow.

T/A guys. Does this look like a top to you? http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=ISRG&p=D&yr=0&mn=6&dy=0&id=p43297452700 Thanks for any responses. I've gotten sort of sloppy with my T/A, and would appreciate the opinions of others.

Regardless of what GOOG does after OE today, there's a great one-day trade to be made here. If there is panic selling at the open, watch if fall and buy the calls on the bounce. The MMs will be buying into the panic, possibly even dropping the bid to extreme levels to add to the panic, then...

OH, uncle BEN is speaking, today ? Oppppssssss......SHORT SQEEZE ALARM !!!! You must be kidding. Uncle Ben still thinks that inflation is the more serious threat to the economy. IF the BSC debacle isn't a wake-up call, I don't know what will be.

What about today? Now that the market will apparently be selling off at the open, is this a buying opp or a selling opp in Rennick's view? Go with the momentum, or attempt a contrarian play? And the Fed today? This is going to be wild.

So GOOG's up on underwhelming volume with earnings on Thurday. This is momentum into expectations for another stellar quarter. I see a great short just over the horizon.

This is a subject near and dear to my heart because I'm a particularly neurotic trader. As posted on another thread, I live in NYC and am forever afraid of another al-Queda attack or some other sort of geopolitical catastrophe and ensuing market collapse. The result is that I almost exclusively...

Neke, I just started reading your thread today, and while I admit I haven't read the whole thing, I find it inspiring and validating to my own trading, which, when I post it, brings all the naysayers out in force. Quick recap of my story. I've been trading stocks for 7 years. I recently...

I keep hearing people talk about options software. What exactly is options software? My broker has the usual stuff---lists of stock and options with unusually high volume, high OI, high and low HV/IV ratio, high IV, updated with "big daily change"---they also have a screener that I don't...

"No. The best way to make consistent money in options is to buy in the money, at the money, and out of the money Puts & Calls." That's what I do every day on momentum stocks. Most of the time I just daytrade them and was able to turn $6k into $70k in about 2 and a half months. Recently...

Well I'm from the Hamptons and am now living sort of mid-Island. I think a group sounds like a great idea, although I'm not sure I'd be willing (especially in the summer) to haul my ass all the way out there....I don't know. I'll check this thread every now and then to see how you're...