Which stocks to short?

[NicMM]

Banks and financial institutes have already dropped a lot. But I see prices of credit card companies like MA and V are still relative strong now. Would they be with the next leg down?

Actually many stocks have came down without seeing significant profitability down trends yet, such as GOOG and FSLR. So I don’t think I can justify to short them.

[(former)FormerSanDiegan]

Seriously, I think that the time to short has passed.

[(former)FormerSanDiegan]

Seriously, I think that the time to short has passed.

[(former)FormerSanDiegan]

Seriously, I think that the time to short has passed.

[(former)FormerSanDiegan]

Seriously, I think that the time to short has passed.

[(former)FormerSanDiegan]

Seriously, I think that the time to short has passed.

[Chris Scoreboard Johnston]

Index futures is the only way, the new rules only allow 3 days plus the day of entry before your brokerage firm will liquidate your position with or without your blessing in short side equity trades. S&P futures do not have that restriction. As a result you have to be dead on right timing wise to short individual stocks. This is one of the results of this wonderful government intervention. This takes liquidity out of the market and makes swings like we just saw in the last 45 minutes today more likely to happen. I am not sure if this applies to the SPY which is the stock proxy of the S&P futures. I do not trade that due to it being alot less liquid than the futures. If it does not and you prefer stocks to futures that might be the way to go or the Q’s if you want to short the Naz.

[Chris Scoreboard Johnston]

Index futures is the only way, the new rules only allow 3 days plus the day of entry before your brokerage firm will liquidate your position with or without your blessing in short side equity trades. S&P futures do not have that restriction. As a result you have to be dead on right timing wise to short individual stocks. This is one of the results of this wonderful government intervention. This takes liquidity out of the market and makes swings like we just saw in the last 45 minutes today more likely to happen. I am not sure if this applies to the SPY which is the stock proxy of the S&P futures. I do not trade that due to it being alot less liquid than the futures. If it does not and you prefer stocks to futures that might be the way to go or the Q’s if you want to short the Naz.

[Chris Scoreboard Johnston]

Index futures is the only way, the new rules only allow 3 days plus the day of entry before your brokerage firm will liquidate your position with or without your blessing in short side equity trades. S&P futures do not have that restriction. As a result you have to be dead on right timing wise to short individual stocks. This is one of the results of this wonderful government intervention. This takes liquidity out of the market and makes swings like we just saw in the last 45 minutes today more likely to happen. I am not sure if this applies to the SPY which is the stock proxy of the S&P futures. I do not trade that due to it being alot less liquid than the futures. If it does not and you prefer stocks to futures that might be the way to go or the Q’s if you want to short the Naz.

[Chris Scoreboard Johnston]

Index futures is the only way, the new rules only allow 3 days plus the day of entry before your brokerage firm will liquidate your position with or without your blessing in short side equity trades. S&P futures do not have that restriction. As a result you have to be dead on right timing wise to short individual stocks. This is one of the results of this wonderful government intervention. This takes liquidity out of the market and makes swings like we just saw in the last 45 minutes today more likely to happen. I am not sure if this applies to the SPY which is the stock proxy of the S&P futures. I do not trade that due to it being alot less liquid than the futures. If it does not and you prefer stocks to futures that might be the way to go or the Q’s if you want to short the Naz.

[Chris Scoreboard Johnston]

Index futures is the only way, the new rules only allow 3 days plus the day of entry before your brokerage firm will liquidate your position with or without your blessing in short side equity trades. S&P futures do not have that restriction. As a result you have to be dead on right timing wise to short individual stocks. This is one of the results of this wonderful government intervention. This takes liquidity out of the market and makes swings like we just saw in the last 45 minutes today more likely to happen. I am not sure if this applies to the SPY which is the stock proxy of the S&P futures. I do not trade that due to it being alot less liquid than the futures. If it does not and you prefer stocks to futures that might be the way to go or the Q’s if you want to short the Naz.

[NicMM]

Chris,

Thanks for your information. I was not very updated. The 3-day rule really explains the big swings we saw recently.

[NicMM]

Chris,

Thanks for your information. I was not very updated. The 3-day rule really explains the big swings we saw recently.

[NicMM]

Chris,

Thanks for your information. I was not very updated. The 3-day rule really explains the big swings we saw recently.

[NicMM]

Chris,

Thanks for your information. I was not very updated. The 3-day rule really explains the big swings we saw recently.

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