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Strategies & Market Trends : The Epic American Credit and Bond Bubble Laboratory -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (1331)	10/8/2003 10:51:52 AM
From: tonka552000	Respond to of 110194

Jim...I don't have any thoughts as to where to find those stats (I'll do some hunting) but I look forward to seeing the results of the search...I'm seeing varying opinions on the amount of debt involved...many claiming much of it is due to the large amount of short selling vs actual buying long on margin...

To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (1331)	10/8/2003 11:10:04 AM
From: orkrious	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110194

any idea how to get data on monthly stock margin debt nasd.com the column "credit balances" is "margin" from shorting. it represents the dollar value of shorted shares. the column "debit balances" is balances from borrowing for longs.

To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (1331)	10/8/2003 11:13:16 AM
From: russwinter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

I subscribe to Barron's and they have an excellent market laboratory section, that gives the Fed numbers I use, monthly margin, etc. Margin is reported about mid-month There also is Economagic (listed above in my lab tools), and they have an historical record, plus chart capabilities. economagic.com Since I believe the "wild men" are back trading on line, I'm also tracking some "micro numbers" numbers put out mid-month (for prior month) by E Trade. biz.yahoo.com