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To: EL KABONG!!! who wrote (91050)	3/17/2005 4:58:37 PM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Respond to of 122088

j6p? fark no the marfia taken j6p over the coals <<personally think that the naked shorts theory is vastly overblown. Yeah, it's possible that some of it exists, maybe even likely given an unscrupulous broker and a customer that pushes the envelope, but I really don't think that the average Joe-Six-Pack can do this stuff without getting bought in.>>

To: EL KABONG!!! who wrote (91050)	3/17/2005 6:23:20 PM
From: rrufff	Respond to of 122088

EL Kabong, you are as right as QuickDraw with this but I really don't think that the average Joe-Six-Pack can do this stuff without getting bought in. The defenders of naked shorting try to make it look like those of us posting are against all shorting. I'm all for making it easier for retail investors to short. The issue of naked shorting is largely one that gives big money players an extra advantage. Hedge funds, market makers, toxic financers, crooked management, all find ways to scam the market and avoid the rules. You and I can't do it even if we wanted to do it. But, if you try to take away this "edge," you see the hoards of attack dogs saying, "there is no problem, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain."