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To: clear who wrote (4041)	10/6/2013 1:32:16 PM
From: Berry Picker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 22860

No - you got that one wrong Short sales are REAL sales but with pretend stock What happens is like this Your broker has 5 guys who bought 1 share (for example) You call up and want to go short He sells one of the shares and now has 5 guys who are long 5 shares but he only has 4 left - he does not worry about it unless too many of the other guys sell If he ends up with only 2 guys long 1 share but only has 1 he may call you up and FORCE you to cover - buy back that 1 share you are short but unless he gets short on shares he will allow you to sell 1 shares and buy it back when you want and lend you that shares from the pool of shares he has SHORT SALES ARE REAL SALES They show up when you sell short on the ticker and they take out some of the buying power of the market and keep prices lower than they would have been What I do not like is when you have a lot of shorts you have people who believe the stock is going down and they are not amateurs because most people who short have been in the game a while or understand it I am long