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To: Tom D who wrote (75869)	8/31/1999 11:31:00 AM
From: Jan Crawley	Read Replies (3) of 164684

Jan, do you know when we can start shorting stocks? How many days after the IPO before we can short? Tom, generally speaking for the retail amateur(that's you and me); our on-line brokers require a "30 days after IPO date) rule. The MMs(market makers) are able to short from day one cuz that's how they are making their living by long/short their inventories. Then you can alway short against your own long shares(such as professionals and funds, they have the shares in their own names, not "street-held". I learn that it's an area has guildlines and SEC regulartions but they are reasonable exceptions depend on parties involved.

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