Except I am not "Wall Street". I am a small trader...Main Street. Business will be exempt. (But will be hurt indirectly). The socialists know...
Shorters are one of the scapegoats for the financial troubles. While naked short selling is a problem, legitimate shorting in the long term is...
Would one person be surprised if investment banks had been shorting their own industry this year? In the computer age is there not a name, an...
Agree...plus I've noticed for some time that stocks that don't have available shorts often seem to be the kind that violently rise in price way...
It doesn't matter because the best companies don't require heavy debt, don't need a high stock price to mortgage themselves from, and actually...
ZION did something similar. Up to $131 and quickly down past $50, now at $51.72. What caused it? Shorts panicking to cover, right?
The more this sinks in the more it seems the motive to ban shorts is to send a message to the thick public that it is the short sellers...
That's what I meant. I blame the boomers because I see them as the Reagan/Bush/Bush supporters and allowed the national debt to rise so high...
Don't think this was your point, but I've long held the "boomers" responsible for what is happening/what will happen to the economy...because of...
Spamming is the absolute sure-fire way not to get my business. Anyone else having ScottradeElite slowdown, lock-up, restart, etc. as the...
This whole week, esp. today (9/18) Scottrade Elite is stuttering, turning on and off and basically is just useless. Anyone else getting this...
I made a little but nearly lost a lot. Didn't realize the ties it has to LEH otherwise I'd stay away. I don't know the NYSE's criteria for...
Well thought out and seems to be just about a perfect plan. You obviously have done your homework and are closer to riches than you can imagine....
Yes. This is not normal? The key is not getting emotions too involved. I still haven't mastered it, though.
It's probably too early to to say, but it seems like I have solved the problem.:D I finally found another site that was freezing on me so I...
You're probably right. I had read a half-truth article favoring it and didn't understand the repercussions in the big picture. If it indeed...
To me the common sense answer is end any naked shorting and reinstate the "uptick rule". But common sense probably gets in the way of the big...
And no, I'm not using wireless.
I use Charter cable (5 Mbps - which I've verified at 4.8). When the problem occurs at elitetrader it's only there. I can go to any other site on...
Anyone else have the following problem? For me it's been constant for what seems a year. (So much so that I rarely even try to come here...
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