Posts Tagged ‘ short selling ’

How to Short the Market Right Now

Jun 17th, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, Personal Investing
1. What’s the best way to short the S&P 500 right now, considering its volatility?   Dan: I approach short selling the way a value investor approaches buying: find stocks with huge disparities between price and intrinsic value. Only with short selling, you’re looking for stocks priced at least 50% to 100% ...read more

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Why You Need to Short Stocks Right Now

Jun 9th, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, Personal Investing
Gary Gibson: Dan, you said the summer should be the best environment for short selling since 2008. That implies a lot of declining stocks. How bad is the outlook for stocks really and why? Dan Amoss: Okay, well I start from the assumption that most economists and analysts are ignoring the ...read more

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Getting Prepared for the Best Short Market in Years

Jun 7th, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, Personal Investing
Be Prepared for the Best Short Market in Years Shorting stock is probably one of the most unusual ways to make money on Wall Street. And I think the best way to explain it is with a story. Say a friend lets you borrow his brand-new car for an extended time. So ...read more

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Short Selling is Good

Jun 4th, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, Personal Investing
Get Ready to Profit from a Summer of Decline First, let me make this perfectly clear: Shorting a stock is NOT taking money out of someone else’s pocket. You are NOT doing anything to make the stock fall in value. And you are NOT profiting from someone else’s misfortune. Instead, short selling is about taking ...read more

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Government Regulation of Short Sellers

Sep 23rd, 2008 | By | Category: Economics, Macro Economics
“Give me control of a nation’s money and I care not who makes her laws.” — Mayer Amschel Rothschild Let’s observe a moment of silence to mourn the slow demise of capitalism in the U.S. Our government is now overtly manipulating the stock market. We have “crossed the Rubicon.” We can no longer ...read more

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Short Selling

Aug 21st, 2008 | By | Category: Macro Economics
“You know, you saw subprime go first, and then, on a slight lag, you saw home equity, and now in the lag, you’re seeing prime go. And it’s exactly the same loss factors. But remember, the components of where we are in the states…[are] very different. And we started doing ...read more

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