Ways to short if you can't short

Quote from nitro:

I am hearing that Brodsky flew out to D.C. to take care of this exemption for us.

I am 90 delta that we will not be dead fish in barrel come Monday.

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can you explain please?
 
Quote from kaciara:

The UK Financial Services Authority (“FSA”) has issued a prohibition on short sales in approximately 40 UK-listed Financial Services Companies. The prohibition is complex and refers to any trading strategy that is economically equivalent to a short sale, and therefore applies as well to derivative strategies such as put option purchases or call option sales.
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The UK is now officially a banana republic, they are also trying to prop up their insane housing market. Where will they stop ?

As for shorting financials, how big a deal is it for the average investor ? I mean to short these stocks at these levels -and even a few months back- you really have to know what you are doing , do a lot of research , dig into the balance sheet and understand what is going on and also be a great technician /trader. Who has the time for the research ?
Yeah of course you can just follow Jim Roger's
trades but who else is in these trades ? That's why you get those huge rallies. Puts have huge premiums, and these stocks can double or triple in 2 days . So actually the government might be doing you a favor.
 
Quote from m22au:

Here is a reference list. Please add to it if I have missed anything.

-- Stock specific --

(1) Short in the money calls and get assigned.

Note to Chris Cox: Will you legislate for a mandatory buy to cover if call writers are assigned?

(2) Short calls

(3) Long puts

(4) Single stock futures

* have huge spreads
* cannot be traded outside of regular hours
* only exist for some larger cap companies

-- Not stock specific --

(5) Sell index futures

(6) Long inverse ETFs

(7) Work for CNBC as a cheerleader for the stockmarket.
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None of this strategies pushes the price of the stock down as short selling itself does. That makes the difference.
 
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