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Strategies & Market Trends : Technical analysis for shorts & longs
SPY 688.98+0.5%Jan 22 4:00 PM EST
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To: Ron who wrote (41119)4/24/2004 12:40:26 AM
From: Johnny Canuck  Read Replies (1) of 69956
 
I would imagine that it has to do with the new exchange rules. You can't have naked shorts anymore for foreign traders. I would think that the brokerages are still getting used to the rules and are erring on the side of caution.

I think that brokerage houses can only borrow stock for shorting from accounts when they are bought on margin. Given that margin debt is a lot less than in the go, go days of the tech bubble there are less shares available to borrow.
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