In case you missed the link I posted mid-June, you’ll no longer have to wait for an uptick in order to short a stock. (Not that anybody would be shorting in this market!) Here’s a note my broker just sent out:

The SEC has voted to remove the “short sale tick test”, Rule […]

Today I started reading Michael Panzner’s newly released (and well-timed given the recent sub-prime mortgage drama) book Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes. Reading the potential for those four catastrophes got me thinking that at some point I may want to place some bearish bets in my IRA. Inverse ETFs […]

I just noticed that for the second time in about a week Ugly posted about not getting filled on an order to short an NYSE stock. Last week he missed an entry on AMR and today he missed TIE. Today he pointed out that:

I was way ahead of this one and I tried […]

BIDU Stock Box Showing No Shares Avail. to Borrow, originally uploaded by ATLMike.

Here’s a shot of the CyberTrader ’stock box’ for BIDU. At the time I took this snapshot there were no shares of BIDU available. Note my current short position is displayed in the upper right corner.

Update: I was hoping this […]

I got two questions yesterday about how I determine how many shares of BIDU were avaiable to borrow. Here’s a shot of the ’stock box’ in CyberTrader — note the upper left corner where is displays the number of shares available for borrowing.

Update: I was hoping this image would appear here with the […]

It looks like Baidu’s stock (BIDU) is going to quickly become a battleground. On Friday I noticed that I got a few hits from people searching for how to short an IPO. It’s probably a good thing for those folks that with a float as small as BIDU’s they probably won’t be able […]

Your boy Cubes (as the guys on PTI would say) just wrote a little dissertation about short selling on his blog. The post is mainly about naked shorting but also has comments about just plain old, legal, shorting as well. I basically agree with everything Cuban has to say. Here are some […]

How strange that just after posting that I don’t see Apple as a short I read an article laying out the bear case. Ken Kurson wrote the article, entitled “iPod, iTunes, iSell: Time to Short the One You Love”, for the March 2005 issue of Esquire Magazine (The article doesn’t appear to be online […]

I just finished reading William O’Neil’s book ‘How to Make Money Selling Stocks Short‘. I was rather surprised at the approach O’Neil professes. Given that he’s such a proponent of using both technical and fundamental analysis when buying stocks, I expected him to do the same for short selling. That’s not the […]

I can’t wait for this book to drop (December 3, 2004). I’m very curious to see what O’Neil has to say on this subject. In ‘How to Make Money in Stocks’ he barely touched on the subject. Here’s the Editorial Review from Amazon:

About the AuthorWILLIAM
J. O’NEIL has distinguished himself as a champion of […]