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To: who cares? who wrote (126427)	9/30/2001 12:19:00 PM
From: 10K a day	Respond to of 436258

alright dude, did you start that petition?

To: who cares? who wrote (126427)	9/30/2001 6:05:54 PM
From: John Graybill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

46. robert lloyd The rules should be the same for shorting a stock or commodity as it is for going long. The sec almost always changes margin requirements or takes other measures to stop a rapidly rising market... Huh? What planet has that guy been living on? A clown, but he has at least a part of a clue: 217. M Cohons Markets can not work without shorting and it is a key component IS BULLSHT and the cry of all shorts alone! Do you take us retail investors for idiots? Well yes you have but no longer. Voices of sanity, maybe we should pile on?: 385. Stone Livingston III It seems that there are many pathetic individuals on this board who have lost money in the market and are now looking for someone to blame for their own stupidity. It's not short sellers that drove this market down you dimwits...it was overvaluation, pure and simple. YOU chose to buy an overvalued investment and now YOU must spend your retirement serving my children french fries at the local burger joint to make up for it. Blame nobody but yourselves...you pulled the trigger and now you have to eat the bullet. Ban short selling...LOL...poor (literally), mislead souls. By the way...Le Nasdaq 100 is still carrying a PE of 100+...we're going well below Nasdaq 1000 before this is all over. 311. Renfrew Morte This petition is complete bullshit sponsored by the desperate and the greedy. The capital markets would decay completely if shorting were halted. Market makers could no longer maintain a neutral position and one would see selling into the bid become the norm. Volatility would be unprecedented and ultimately disasterous. 209. petewitt save the markets my ass!So they will run $2 stocks to $1200/share again.How about stop whinning and blaming others for your poor trading skills and stop tampering with free markets-if you pay $1000 for a $2 stock imo it should have never that high to begin with-shorting keeps this from happening.Can you imagine1999 with out it?This is not a signature. 207. no signature (see comment below) Market Specialist and Market Makers are allowed to sell short, as a mechanism to facilitate stock transaction to the general public "to make a market" in what may be an illiquid market. The general publics participation in selling short makes the markets even more efficient, and, at the same time, provide competition for the Market makers and Wall Street firms that are selling short. Without the ability to sell short, money funds would sell stock at the bid, really pummel the price of the security they were selling instead of trying to work the sale in an uptick. 206. Geoff Devo THIS IS NOT A SIGNATURE....SHORTING IS A KEY COMPONENT IN THE MARKETS 205. Jim Riggins The markets cannot work without shorting. They just don't teach it in investing 101. ERTS would fall to 20's immediatly if there was no shorting. Conisder yourself lucky that ERTS is still in the 40's, thanks to the shorts who keep buying to cover. This, also, is NOT a signature. 202. Moez Kassam Short Sellings makes the market more efficient.......these posts about 'shorting is killing the market' is spoken out of pure IGNORANCE. 201. Moe fuelondelphia Shorts is what is keeping this market up, also the evil shorts that you say are so bad have saved many innocent investors millions/billions from the scams and overvalued companies out there. This is not a signature 197. Anthony@Pacific You are totally insane the mkts have cratered because of the sins of The major Firms on WallStreet , By the way they have the largest naked short positions of any one, They are exempt from the same rules the public is bound to, THIS IS NOT A SIGNIATURE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Black humor returns: 324. Ben Laden Is this site public because I want to short it This post sponsored by... 418. BUY GOLD NOW! GET FU*KING REAL & STOP BLAMING SHORTS FOR YOUR POOR INVESTMENTS! BLAME WALL STREET FOR LETTING SO MANY FAKE COMPANIES COME PUBLIC AND DESTROYING THE CONCEPT OF VALUE AND WHAT A COMPANY IS WORTH! IT'S NOT SHORT SELLERS THAT DROVE PRICES DOWN, IT'S THE LUDICROUS OVERVALUATION THAT STILL PERSISTS IN JUST ABOUT EVERY STOCK ON THE EXCHANGE. JUST SELL & BUY GOLD!