The professionals were selling and selling short and the public was buying like mad.
The Fed conducts traditional monetary policy by buying or selling short-term Treasury securities in the open market.
Many German leaders blame investment banks for helping PIIGS cheat on their reported budgets and selling short.
Only hedge funds--by selling short and tapping into a wide range of strategies like arbitrage--can do the trick.
For those selling short based on this trigger, a stop is placed above the doji or most recent high.
Fear runs rampant, causing the ban on selling short bank shares in Europe.
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Have you ever tried selling short, and then tried to get some sleep?
The European Financial Stability Facility announced an expanded funding profile Wednesday, with plans to start selling short-term paper with three-, six- and 12-month maturities.
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The Fed instead extended its Operation Twist program aimed at keeping long-term borrowing costs low by selling short-term Treasurys and putting the money into long-term bonds.
Individual investors will begin put buying, selling short and getting out of longs anytime the markets fall by more than five percent over a period of days or weeks.
Corporations are having a tough time selling short-term debt.
For those whose jobs and livelihoods depend on oil prices remaining high, an investment that increases in value by either selling short the above-mentioned products or buying DCR would offset the economic pain.
The new rules unveiled Monday require underwriters selling short and medium-length corporate bonds to set prices that are close to those on bonds that currently trade in the secondary markets, said the three people.
So what we've asked for is an exemption for those market makers if there is ever a ban on selling short due to a tick test or due to a movement in the marketplace.
These involve selling short-term December 1999 interest-rate futures contracts and buying September 1999 and March 2000 ones, on the assumption that short-term rates will spike over the millennium because of extra demand for cash.
It has a large financial services division and has come under pressure in recent days on concerns that even it, with its triple-A credit rating, would have trouble selling short-term debt to fund those operations.
If they dare to make money out of their beliefs by selling short (betting on falling prices) when a crisis hits, bears are decried as economic vandals and politicians call for their activities to be banned.
Already Jenkins has been doing some basic (by gas or electricity standards) arbitrage plays such as contracting for capacity at known chokepoints in the national telecommunications grid to take advantage of price spikes, as well as selling short in areas with a looming glut.
Currently, the rule against naked short-selling requires short-sellers to do one of three things: borrow the stock prior to selling it short, identify the stock before selling it short, or have a reasonable belief that they will be able to locate the stock in the future.
In an efficient market, such as that for shares or foreign exchange, such price rises would be moderated to some extent by other investors selling short (selling something for future delivery that they do not currently own, in the hope that they will be able to buy it more cheaply later).
In fact, given that both AKS and X have entered technically overbought levels in bear market territory, the potential for renewed selling and short selling here is greater than average.
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The suit, filed in February, accuses the big banks of participating in a "massive" scheme to manipulate Overstock.com (nasdaq: OSTK - news - people ) shares by allowing naked short selling, in which a trader doesn't properly borrow stocks before selling them short.
The state is probing naked short-selling, which is the practice of selling shares short without borrowing them.
Trade settlement failures can be an indication that a manipulative form of short-selling--called naked short-selling--is going on with the stock.
The SEC should be criticized severely for doing away with the uptick rule on short-selling--no shorting of a stock unless it has moved up in price--and for its failure to enforce rules against naked short-selling--requiring a short seller to first borrow a stock before he shorts it.
The agency is also set to finalize amendments to rules about short-selling on an uptick and about short-selling restricted shares in advance of a stock offering.
The basic argument offered was that unregulated short-selling caused the crisis thanks to short-selling "bandits" allegedly forcing down the share prices of companies, regardless of their underlying financial health.
Driving the reduction in hedge fund short trading is the escalating cost of selling stock short in the last few years.
The SEC's anti-naked short-selling restrictions also continue in place, including a requirement that short sales be closed out within the settlement period, with penalties on further short-selling activity if the close-out isn't followed.
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