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Short Sellers and Speculators Are Heroes, Not Villains
I’m expecting a lot of nasty e-mails on this column, but the truth needs to be told. Short-term traders, especially short sellers, are often blamed erroneously for manipulating stock prices, forcing them down far below their real value, and for creating crashes and general chaos on Wall Street.
In fact, short sellers have been identified as so vile by SEC Chairman Christopher Cox that he has banned short selling for some 980 publicly traded companies. Chairman Cox and other critics of the market blame short sellers for several grievances:
1. Short sellers destabilize prices in a shaky market, and in a panic…
3Oct2008 | Investment U | Comments Off | ContinuedShorting Stocks: The Truth about this Investing Strategy…and When It Makes Most Sense
Shorting stocks is how you make money from falling stocks – in theory anyway… In practice, shorting is one of the most difficult skills to master in the markets.
Today we’ll take a quick look at the mechanics of shorting, and then we’ll get into how to make it work for you, and decide if it’s even appropriate for you.
Buy Low, Sell High… Or… Sell High, Buy Back Low?
Buy low, sell high. That’s how you make money in the markets right? If you buy at $10 and sell at $20, you’ve got a $10 profit. The thing most people don’t know…
22Aug2008 | Investment U | Comments Off | Continued
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