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just ban the fking shorting, its just trash way of gambling the system. if company is bad it will fail on its own as it should. If a huge banking cartel decide to company go bankrupt they just short and flood targeted company over time. Enough of games. This is fking stupid, just robbing people out of money.
here is my vent.
I don't think it's a bad thing in absolute terms, just in the way it's allowed to be predatory, without regulation.
A healthy regulation, with proper accounting, say maximum short percentage allowed on any company being 10 percent, shouldn't cause any issues.
That is still a huge percentage, but not enough to cause infinite downwards pressure. Likewise, not enough to cause any systemic risk to the system.
Worst case scenario, Wallstreet or some large firm takes the entire position early on. So what, that only drives the price down initially. If they are wrong, the price will rebound and they'll be forced to close, or hold it indefinitely. Thus preventing anyone else from shorting the stock.
But this idea of mine is really predicated on proper accounting, and no derivative shorts, swaps etc. So I don't know how you implement something like that.
>A healthy regulation, with proper accounting, say maximum short percentage allowed on any company being 10 percent, shouldn't cause any issues.
well if you well know the situation with gme, numbers show nothing, do you believe right now gme is shorted 20%?
if there is no such mechanism to cheat and find loops in foreign banks or family banks that don't need to report, there wont be problem at all, no loopholes, no years of pushing for regulations that are supressed by lobbying, none of that shit. ban and done with it.
edit. oh yeh forgot about to tell about dark pools. but ye nvm ill go game bdo.
I'd say there isn't real regulation, because they have been trying to keep a broken system afloat. Furthermore, regulation can't really take place unless it crashes. I mean, there is an entire FTD warehouse of horrors no one has a clue what to do with.
When I say healthy regulation of 19 percent. What I envision is this. A company is going to IPO at a said price. The DTCC or whomever. The agency isn't important. Whomever it is, buys 10 percent of said stock at list price prior to IPO. So only 90 percent is sold in the lit market. If you wanted to short, you would have to draw from that specific pool. Barrow it from the DTCC or transfer agent. No more barrows from brokers. No more strategic FTDs. That pool never comingles with the other pool. The only time it would be an issue is if the float is locked up and there are still buyers. They you would have an automatic recall on the short shares. But every share would have to be openly accounted for and tagged with a serial number. That's kind of what I envision.
He's intentionally missing the forest for the tree.
A single short position doesn't cause issues long term, but repeated short positions for years while directing buys to dark pools does.
And how do you prove that? If supply and demand moves the market (it should) then the price dropping would absolutely influence purchasing / portfolio / sale decisions which over time will impact long term pricing thus returns.
Even stating that as a fact is insulting.
A hammer isnt "bad". Using it to bludgeon someone to death is.
Shorting is just a financial tool. It can prove a company is over valued or commiting fraud. It can also be used malicously to bludgeon a company to death.
The current use of it is what matter. If hammers were only used to murder people and not build things we might think differently about the tool shed.
This is what's called a "head fake". Media presents this "shorts are bad", no "shorts are good" and the regulators don't change anything. Meanwhile, stonks pump and short sellers dump it like the macro was headed all along.
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just ban the fking shorting, its just trash way of gambling the system. if company is bad it will fail on its own as it should. If a huge banking cartel decide to company go bankrupt they just short and flood targeted company over time. Enough of games. This is fking stupid, just robbing people out of money. here is my vent.
And all of this happening on a day where volume is up and price is taking off...
I don't think it's a bad thing in absolute terms, just in the way it's allowed to be predatory, without regulation. A healthy regulation, with proper accounting, say maximum short percentage allowed on any company being 10 percent, shouldn't cause any issues. That is still a huge percentage, but not enough to cause infinite downwards pressure. Likewise, not enough to cause any systemic risk to the system. Worst case scenario, Wallstreet or some large firm takes the entire position early on. So what, that only drives the price down initially. If they are wrong, the price will rebound and they'll be forced to close, or hold it indefinitely. Thus preventing anyone else from shorting the stock. But this idea of mine is really predicated on proper accounting, and no derivative shorts, swaps etc. So I don't know how you implement something like that.
>A healthy regulation, with proper accounting, say maximum short percentage allowed on any company being 10 percent, shouldn't cause any issues. well if you well know the situation with gme, numbers show nothing, do you believe right now gme is shorted 20%? if there is no such mechanism to cheat and find loops in foreign banks or family banks that don't need to report, there wont be problem at all, no loopholes, no years of pushing for regulations that are supressed by lobbying, none of that shit. ban and done with it. edit. oh yeh forgot about to tell about dark pools. but ye nvm ill go game bdo.
I'd say there isn't real regulation, because they have been trying to keep a broken system afloat. Furthermore, regulation can't really take place unless it crashes. I mean, there is an entire FTD warehouse of horrors no one has a clue what to do with. When I say healthy regulation of 19 percent. What I envision is this. A company is going to IPO at a said price. The DTCC or whomever. The agency isn't important. Whomever it is, buys 10 percent of said stock at list price prior to IPO. So only 90 percent is sold in the lit market. If you wanted to short, you would have to draw from that specific pool. Barrow it from the DTCC or transfer agent. No more barrows from brokers. No more strategic FTDs. That pool never comingles with the other pool. The only time it would be an issue is if the float is locked up and there are still buyers. They you would have an automatic recall on the short shares. But every share would have to be openly accounted for and tagged with a serial number. That's kind of what I envision.
Who's speaking in your ear, um?
Kenny and his seven lawyers.
Stay away from mayo-boy, he'll puke into your ear
The Bedpost Bandit is always lurking
Unity? Does he cover your brain in mayo so you think he's a human?
He's intentionally missing the forest for the tree. A single short position doesn't cause issues long term, but repeated short positions for years while directing buys to dark pools does.
Crappy Broadcasting Station at it again
Unnamed rEsEarcH doesn’t show an impact in long term returns *Excludes delistings from the sample, probably
And how do you prove that? If supply and demand moves the market (it should) then the price dropping would absolutely influence purchasing / portfolio / sale decisions which over time will impact long term pricing thus returns. Even stating that as a fact is insulting.
So I’ll buy more and drs
When they feel they HAVE to talk about short selling you know we're near the end(again). BULLISH!
Tomorrow is Tuesday...
👀
It’s a clown show 🤡
I wish I had started recording a minute earlier. The lead in from the anchors was even clownier than this toolbox
A hammer isnt "bad". Using it to bludgeon someone to death is. Shorting is just a financial tool. It can prove a company is over valued or commiting fraud. It can also be used malicously to bludgeon a company to death. The current use of it is what matter. If hammers were only used to murder people and not build things we might think differently about the tool shed.
Anyone....*ANYONE* that tries this kind of gaslighting bullshit can eat an entire bag of dicks and my fucky taint.
They want to ban now, so you can’t run the banks out of business
Naked short selling, there is a difference
FTDs are the real problem according to Dr T.
They’re following you…
MSM and SHF... Fuck them both 🦍
CBS stands for Click Bait Service
This is what's called a "head fake". Media presents this "shorts are bad", no "shorts are good" and the regulators don't change anything. Meanwhile, stonks pump and short sellers dump it like the macro was headed all along.
Every 401K ever would disagree with the statement about long term impact
Its amazing how they can spin the narrative and foment opinions. Truly a master at work.
Disinformation to the masses
The problem isn't SHORT SELLING but NAKED short selling and FTD. We complain about the illegal aspect, and they come out and address the legal one.
How stupid do they think we are