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Shorting stocks: Mechanical aspects

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47	The only book I can recommend is Kathryn Staley's "The art of short se	Q.	-	11/13/1997
46	Thanks, John. Can you now recommend a book or site for short guidelines? For in	Jonathan Brown	-	11/13/1997
45	For short interest data online there are two websites for nasdaq stocks. The N	Q.	-	11/13/1997
44	Can you list a couple of sites where I can look up short interest on a given st	Jonathan Brown	-	11/12/1997
43	I think short interest is of interest for two reasons: * a high short interest	Q.	-	11/11/1997
42	I would tend to agree. Remember IMPX? I was long on the stock and managed to	Ted Jackson	-	11/10/1997
41	Ted, you are right that when a stock falls a lot, short sellers will cover, and	Q.	-	11/10/1997
40	Question to All: It seems that when the short interest in a stock peaks, the p	Ted Jackson	-	11/10/1997
39	John, After reading all the postings I want to thank you (darte las gracias) fo	Pancho Villa	-	11/3/1997
38	Geigartt, the term squeeze means different things to different people. For some	Q.	-	9/26/1997
37	Thanks John re MM and limits. My next question concerns HMSC, but the question	Geigartt	-	9/26/1997
36	Geigartt, market makers and others can often see your limit. In fact you can se	Q.	-	9/19/1997
35	John, I finally got my feet wet with a short position in HMSC @ 8 3/4 to 9 1/4.	Geigartt	-	9/18/1997
34	Shoe, NYSE and AMEX have one kind of uptick rule, and Naz has a different non-u	Q.	-	9/4/1997
33	John, can you explain the "uptick" rule? Is there anything strange a	Shoe	-	9/4/1997
32	Text of new short-sale tax rule (long): This is taken from Thomas website, HR	Shoe	-	8/9/1997
31	George, the SEC pronouncement came last year. Previously a conversion discount	Q.	-	7/30/1997
30	recent SEC pronouncement? ? ? re: convert disc "financing costs" I r	George McMeen	-	7/29/1997
29	Shoe, when you box and then later un-do your box, you do two more transactions	Q.	-	7/29/1997
28	John, thanks for the response -- but why are there such high transactions cost	Shoe	-	7/29/1997
27	Shoe - I don't know whether the broker will reduce the margin collateral re	Q.	-	7/28/1997
26	Thanks, John. Another question: If I box a short position, should I still have	Shoe	-	7/28/1997
25	this little golf club maker is going public $5 per share how I wish other comp	George McMeen	-	7/17/1997
24	Chris; I have all the Nasdaq stuff already inported into lotus 123 v2.4 , ans c	James F. Hopkins	-	7/10/1997
23	Chris, Nasdaq short interest data can be found at nasd.com At one time NYSE da	Q.	-	7/8/1997

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