[politicket]

You may have seen the news coverage on the Securities and Exchange Commission halting short stock sales.

Excellent post. Just wanted to add one point.

The short sales are only being nominally impacted due to the knowledgable in the market using "synthesized shorts" - basically via put and call options.

[javachip]

Thanks.

I suspected the Wall St whiz kids would be able to work around a short ban with some kind of option trade.