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

To: CapitalistHogg™ who wrote (17638)8/12/2004 2:36:49 PM
From: Louis V. Lambrecht  Respond to of 110194
 
Read the last free issue of Alan Newman
cross-currents.net
"hear say" but worth investigating

about 2/3rd down in the page:
According to indexuniverse.com, "In some instances, the number of shares sold short in an ETF has exceeded its number of shares outstanding,"....

Not available for shorting? Yup! Not available for the lumpeninvestoriat.



To: CapitalistHogg™ who wrote (17638)8/12/2004 3:06:08 PM
From: Crimson Ghost  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 110194
 
In the past I have sometimes been unable to short TLT -- the long treasury bond index fund.



To: CapitalistHogg™ who wrote (17638)8/12/2004 3:46:20 PM
From: Knighty Tin  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 110194
 
bh, Full service brokers borrow shares from one another. The big vaults are at Pershing and Merrill. So, Bear can pretty much always get shares, especially since they earn nearly the entire float for a retail client.


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