stock101, the shorting rule was put in place by the SEC to keep a balanced market ... the message board posters are the bashers you claim ... just as the message board PUMPERS ..Are doing the same thing...
Naked shorting and legal shorting by traders are not the same
Big Shorting by the rules are mainly done by the Wall Street Pros ..... Because the risks are far greater then the rewards
Why don't you go after your message board pumpers who lie and mislead with the zeal you do the bashers you claim are shorting? PS: and in the US the average trader can not short any of these penny scams...
Stockhound-you really don't seem to have a good grasp of how shorting works, or what its function is. Perhaps you should read some of the academic literature. Lamont is a good place to start. Also the PALM case study, a classical example of how contraints on shorting allow gross mispricing of stocks.