Replies to post #598283 on Zeev's Turnips Patch-No Politics (ZEEV)

[brainlessone]

yup, yup YUP YUP YUP.

the only unknown is after 911 treasury put in some mechanism to monitor certain money flows from outside the country. maybe there is a lot of foreign shorting?

i have absolutely no idea how or if this is true

[hk2]

I'm more than a little curious how they expect functional futures and options markets when managing futures/options books *requires* the ability to short the underlying (more or less) on demand.

Wonder how this will affect the inverse EFTs

[Bruce A Thompson]

Functional futures and options markets?????

You mean the markets where the shorts cannot borrow anymore shares from the market because they already got them all? So they use the options markets to buy puts and get the options MM to naked short the company into oblivion with his hedges?

Frankly, I am glad to see that little manipulatory secret scheme come to an end.