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The Motley Fool
June 4, 2010 |
Roundtable: Is Short-Selling Evil? As part of our special series on short-selling, we asked several Motley Fool analysts to weigh in with their views on whether being able to sell short is a good or bad thing for financial markets in general. Here's what they had to say.   |
The Motley Fool
October 9, 2008
Rich Duprey |
Sell Short to Save the Market! With the short-selling ban expired, market volatility may be lessened. |
The Motley Fool
June 22, 2010
Morgan Housel |
The Benefits of Short-Selling Are Way Overrated Save the praise. Short-sellers rarely uncover much. |
The Motley Fool
August 13, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Waiting for the Next Bear Stearns A new survey shows that nearly 60% of 146 institutional investors polled expect another major financial firm to collapse in the next six months. |
The Motley Fool
March 31, 2008
Sham Gad |
Don't Let Short-Selling Tempt You Frustrated by losses and a market that seems to show no immediate hope for quick gains, many investors may be tempted to try profiting from market declines by short-selling. Don't be one of them. |
The Motley Fool
August 2, 2011
Dan Caplinger |
Bears Are Back and They're Buying This Take a look at the Active Bear ETF, and you'll find just about everything you'd expect from an exchange-traded fund. But instead of owning holdings, this fund takes short positions. |
The Motley Fool
May 24, 2007
Seth Jayson |
Quick Take: The Real Problem With Shorting If naked shorting is as easy and pervasive as they claim, why do short-sellers have to shell out such exorbitant sums (20% in some cases) to get borrows? |
The Motley Fool
May 5, 2009
Dan Caplinger |
Now It's Time for Short-Sellers to Panic Right now, with the market already having declined so much, short-sellers could find themselves even worse off than investors who've owned shares throughout the bear market. |
The Motley Fool
September 22, 2008
Morgan Housel |
The Death of Wall Street Wall Street as it's been known for decades got a dramatic makeover this weekend as the remaining independent investment banks -- Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley -- gained approval from the Federal Reserve to be recognized as bank holding companies. |
The Motley Fool
August 22, 2008
Morgan Housel |
A Stealth Lehman Bailout? Was the Fed's reported intervention a taste of things to come? |
InternetNews
October 3, 2008
Paul Shread |
Bailout Bill Passes -- Now The Hard Part Begins Will the government's massive financial rescue plan work? The answer for technology companies and their investors won't be academic. |
The Motley Fool
September 15, 2010
Dan Caplinger |
Short Stocks Without Losing Everything Combining options with short-selling makes perfect sense. |
The Motley Fool
September 25, 2008
Dan Caplinger |
Watch Out for Broken ETFs Government action sometimes has unintended consequences. |
The Motley Fool
October 2, 2008
Rich Duprey |
Well, That Didn't Work SEC isn't letting the failure of its original short-selling ban stop it from extending it. |
The Motley Fool
September 14, 2011
Travis Hoium |
Don't Be Scared Out of Your Shorts About Shorting Shorting stocks can be intimidating for beginning investors. But this simple strategy could help it find a place in your portfolio. |
InternetNews
September 17, 2008
Paul Shread |
Stocks Plummet on AIG Rescue VMware and Nortel were two of the tech sector's biggest losers on a historic day for the stock market. |
The Motley Fool
May 27, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Lehman Can't Shake the Shorts Lehman Brothers is back defending itself against those hunting for the next credit-crisis victim. |
The Motley Fool
June 4, 2010
Alyce Lomax |
Short-Selling Can Leave You Short As part of our series on short-selling, this Motley Fool writer says defend the practice, but proceed with extreme caution. |
The Motley Fool
January 4, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Goldman's Double Take Goldman Sachs, one of the largest issuers of mortgage-backed securities over the past two and a half years, made huge amounts of money betting against what were in essence the same products it had been peddling to clients. |
The Motley Fool
April 4, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Take That, Lehman Short-Sellers! Embattled investment bank Lehman Brothers is battling tooth and nail to avoid going down the same path as Bear Stearns. |
The Motley Fool
July 17, 2008
John Reeves |
Fool Blog: Short Selling and the Death of Satire Do the big investment banks really need our protection? |
The Motley Fool
June 4, 2010
Saletta & Caplinger |
Are ETFs the Best Way to Short the Market? As part of our special series on short-selling, two Motley Fool analysts look at whether short ETFs are the best. |
The Motley Fool
October 8, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Mohnish Pabrai on Short-Selling, Derivatives, and Gambling One investor's take on the recent derivative clown show. |
BusinessWeek
May 21, 2007
Lewis Braham |
The Short Sell Made Simple New funds are making it easier and safer to bet against an aging bull market. |
The Motley Fool
March 30, 2010
Morgan Housel |
For Banks, It's Been 800 Days of Christmas A short list of little-known goodies. |
The Motley Fool
December 11, 2008
Morgan Housel |
The Unmatched Brazenness of Goldman Sachs Goldman Sachs is at it again. It's advising clients to bet against products that it peddled into the market itself. |
The Motley Fool
March 2, 2011
Matt Koppenheffer |
Don't Mess With This Bull, You'll Get the Horns! The bull market is causing short-sellers to give up and run for the hills. Is this good news? Apparently, short-sellers have gotten sick and tired of finding themselves on the wrong side of the bull horns as the S&P 500 has marched up nearly 100% since the lows of 2009. |
The Motley Fool
September 19, 2008
Morgan Housel |
The Mother of All Mother of All Bailouts In the coming hours and days, the Treasury and Federal Reserve are expected to introduce a sweeping bailout plan designed to finally pound a nail in the credit-crisis coffin for good. |
The Motley Fool
December 31, 2008 |
The Pro Guide to Shorting There's more risk than potential gain, so tread carefully. |
The Motley Fool
October 29, 2007
Michael Goode |
Don't Sell a Short-Seller Short Trying to beat short-sellers can squeeze your wallet instead. |
The Motley Fool
June 12, 2008
Morgan Housel |
The Banking Clown Show Continues Lehman squabbles, Citigroup wobbles ... another week of bad banking news. |
The Motley Fool
May 6, 2009
Alex Dumortier |
Stress Test: Who Are the Shorts Targeting? Aggregate short sales in the shares of the 18 publicly traded financials subject to the government's stress tests were twice as high on April 15 as they were at their peak last year in July, two months before Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. |
The Motley Fool
September 11, 2007
Sham Gad |
Short-Selling Will Short-Change You Short-selling is the process of selling borrowed shares with the hope of buying them back at a lower price. The odds are stacked against you. |
The Motley Fool
June 4, 2010
Bylund & Del Vecchio |
Should You Use Options to Go Short? As part of our special series on short-selling, two Motley Fool contributors debate whether using options is smarter than selling stocks short. |
The Motley Fool
May 4, 2007
Zoe Van Schyndel |
Trade Like a Hedge Fund Although this strategy is often used by hedge funds and applied to equities, you can also build your own 130/30 portfolio using ETFs. |
The Motley Fool
June 18, 2010
Ivan Martchev |
Banning Short Selling Is an Act of Desperation Legitimate short selling is a viable market strategy that aids the price-discovery mechanism. Germany's ban on short selling fixes nothing. |
InternetNews
September 19, 2008
Paul Shread |
Investors Cheer Financial Rescue Plan Investors responded enthusiastically Friday to the federal government's massive financial rescue plan, but the long-term process of sorting winners and losers is just beginning. |
The Motley Fool
June 12, 2009
Selena Maranjian |
Are Short-Sellers Right This Time? Learn what short interest can tell you. |
