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AZO is an extremely well run company with a reasonable PE and solid EPS, in a rising overall market environment. Short it and die.

How do you figure that? The spreads are insane. The OP asked for something with small spreads. Index options are definitely not that animal.

What planet did you just fall in from? Or, as appropriate to your name, what hole did you just crawl out of? Anything that restricts short selling dampens volatility across the board. In everything related to equities. When the uptick rule was in effect, there were fewer shorts to...

The very best service that a site like this can provide is to simply shine a light on questionable activities. Turn a light on and the cockroaches run for cover. But if somebody wants to hang around after the light is on....well, it's a free country and there will aways be a good supply of...

Scheduled a conference call for 12:15 today. Didn't show. Enough said.

My bet is that either: (a) He is shilling for collecting customers that he'll turn over to someone else for 'treatment', which will included a free dose of wallet lightening at some point down the road, or (b) He'd like to package a couple traders so that he can find funding from another...

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck (and in this case LOOKS like a duck)....

Good question, and it all depends on your strategy/system. As just one example, I used to regularly buy weakness in equities (which I'll return to when the market trend turns solidly positive.) I found my results significantly improved when I limited my watchlist to those stocks with...

I have never had a problem shorting equities at IB, so long as they have high daily volume. I can't give a specific volume, but I would be surprised if anything doing over 2 million a day isn't available to short at IB, except under unusual market conditions.

I've found that the word FRAUD tends to sharply focus the thinking of those who are about to commit it. :eek:

Wire Fraud is the clear charge if he intends to dupe anyone. His posts, promises, and claims of his own success are very public. If anyone follows through with his 'registration' and games and is at anytime solicited for funds or fees, then I would hope they would come back here and share...

It will depend much on how long you have been trading, and the consistency of your results. These folks want reliability. If less than 2 years, then you'll likely have problems, especially with financing.

You may be able to easily short an ETF...or go long and UltraShort ETF...but the issue is, what happens after you enter? As the ETFs are based on the underlying indexes, and the indexes are based on the underlying equity components, if short volatility is dampened with uptick rules then your...

An uptick rule is likely to impact every stock and derivative-of-stocks that you might use to go short. Because shorting a stock will become more difficult, I think the clear result will be less profitablity on the downside, especially when trading short term. While you can use futures...

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2008 kicks off with legendary prognosticator Abby Joseph Cohen of Lehman Brothers calling for a 14,750 Dow. As stocks struggle through the early part of the year, many analysts think the March 17 demise of Bear signals the turning point in the bear market. The Dow closes at 11,972 and a...

I agree with just sitting back and being a witness to this and keeping your hands off the trigger until at least a few up days. It reminds me somewhat of the crash in 2000-2001. Even getting short is difficult because of lack of entry points, and the risk of a quick backlash. Cash is...

Oversold....overschmold. Support at 650...at 600...at 550...bla bla bla. A bunch of baloney. This market is collapsing on FUNDAMENTALS, which is completely rational. Technicals play no part here.

LOL. This is one for the keeper file. You sold 2,000 contracts and come to ET looking for advice. :eek:

If your mentor didn't drill into you the simple rule "The Trend is Your Friend", then you had either a very shitty mentor, or you weren't listening. Pull up any chart longer than 10 minutes and the trend is very clearly down, down, down...until further notice. Hard to imagine by what...