Spain bans stock short selling

Spain bans stock short selling

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They’re back! Short-selling bans, that is… Spain is banning short-selling of shares for the next three months.

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Spik

Jul 23, 2012 4:27pm

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Quoting piptastic

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can they ever ban shortselling in Forex? is that possible?

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If they ban shorting GBPUSD, then i'll go long USDGBP.

Of course they cannot do banning in forex ...

ReaM

Jul 24, 2012 1:14am

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Quoting Guest

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Which means forcing the stock to rally ??

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Short selling should not have any significant effect on price. I don't think markets will fall more because of short sellers, since they too have to close their shorts by buying. In fact, I think short selling makes downtrend more smooth. When you don't have short sellers, nobody wants to buy anywhere, everyone just exits their longs and there is only sell sell sell.

By the way, guys, short selling is almost as old as stocks, it was invented in 1600 something. Brokers started selling more stock to their costumers than they had which they thought they would buy later.

moaf

Jul 23, 2012 8:34am

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Quoting ssshhhh

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all bad news, but why euro is the intraday strongest currency against other risk currency?

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true. just to take a look o EURCAD and EURAUD, someone is buying ... something big is around the corner in my opinion.

moaf

Jul 23, 2012 8:49am

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Till last week I have bullish attitude on EURUSD, nevertheless ...
Just to tell you, that my friend in Switzerland (big private bank) said that they have EURUSD TP on 1.17 and 1.14 ... Last week I said that it's bullshit but last year when EURCHF was on 1.2 I asked him and they said the same with EURCHF TP on 1.02 ...
Everybody know what happened so it's just a info for you, maybe someone can use it .

moaf

Jul 23, 2012 9:01am

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Quoting falwic

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Euro cannot go down to 1.1

Every fish is selling euro even york taxi driver talks about that. So this is best moment for large players to buy some euro on bad news then with any single possitive news they gonna squize all short selling greed bastads.

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True. I just said what I heard. Last year I lost tons of pips on EURCHF.
You can see every price on EURUSD, for sure not every can hold for long period, but in one day you can see everything.

courtneywild

Jul 23, 2012 8:07am

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Quoting moaf

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all this crisis is made by speculators, so the best way to cut them off is ... to cut them off ...

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moaf

You serious.... no its a joke right... speculators! Mmmm I don't think so. Stupid leaders and a stupid system, but speculators.... !

ThisPip

Jul 23, 2012 12:39pm

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This whole european financial crisis just has not yet exploded to the max, to be in a position where it only can get better. Reversals will stay smaller, Short swings will get larger. Keep the timing and discipline in tact.

Forexprofit

Jul 23, 2012 11:00am

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Quoting Patraulea

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A cheaper EURO will boost exports, so there is a good side in everything!

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And makes imports much higher

There is no guarantee that EU will export the same quantity but for the same unit EU will have higher production cost - which is no good

braincooler

Jul 23, 2012 3:35pm

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Quoting Manipulator

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No we wanna trade not cut them off. Look at all the money being made now. Damn it is now the money is made but not by retail. We the only segment without a line of sight. A broker would even give out zero spread for that information. We have a right to market visibility. Its the only way to trade without calling it a gamble. I am not gonna quit for them at anytime. So I am fighting back first with a model that simulates what they know that we do not know - order flow and next encouraging others to demand that information by right as part of the...

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I agree on that Manupilator.
Please send me a PM - maybe we could cooperate ;-)

siewhf

Jul 23, 2012 9:57am

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Quoting Guest

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HERE COMES 1.2000!!!! 1.1500 in August...then 1.1000 and 1.000 by end of the year!!!

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Yes, chance for Eur/Usd to hit Parity is very high, whereby we will see USD continue to strengthen and EURope countries bailing out.

ssshhhh

Jul 23, 2012 8:00am

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all bad news, but why euro is the intraday strongest currency against other risk currency?

I think it has some big bulls buying

Quoting moaf

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all this crisis is made by speculators, so the best way to cut them off is ... to cut them off ...

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hehe, good point.

moaf

Jul 23, 2012 7:52am

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all this crisis is made by speculators, so the best way to cut them off is ... to cut them off ...

ForexMGames

Jul 23, 2012 10:18am

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that is why i love forex. I can go short without all these nonsense of banning short sellers.

courtneywild

Jul 23, 2012 7:49am

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pathetic truly... last gasp

falwic

Jul 23, 2012 8:51am

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Euro cannot go down to 1.1

Every fish is selling euro even york taxi driver talks about that. So this is best moment for large players to buy some euro on bad news then with any single possitive news they gonna squize all short selling greed bastads.

asingh601

Jul 23, 2012 7:59am

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Quoting Guest

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HERE COMES 1.2000!!!! 1.1500 in August...then 1.1000 and 1.000 by end of the year!!!

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Sir Please Explain why EUR/USD will down 1.000 by end of Year?

lagoi

Jul 23, 2012 8:21am

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euro oh euro, where is yours power ??

robboyes

Jul 23, 2012 8:30am

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1.2000! euro will it happen waiting

Sanguis

Jul 23, 2012 8:33am

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Quoting moaf

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all this crisis is made by speculators, so the best way to cut them off is ... to cut them off ...

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Yes, speculators: UBS, Commerzbank, Citibank........

robboyes

Jul 23, 2012 9:05am

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euro will me make 1.2050 ???????

Pip_tracker

Jul 23, 2012 7:47am

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EUR is in great pain.....

Pip_tracker

Jul 23, 2012 7:49am

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ECB is wainting at the corner...... don't be so confident "IP XX.XX.14.113"

Crucifix

Jul 23, 2012 7:53am

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Bad news added everyday for EUR

Jul 23, 2012 7:37am

bad bad bad

Jul 23, 2012 8:06am

i do not know..???? still in doubt.

Manipulator

Jul 23, 2012 8:13am — Edited

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Quoting moaf

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all this crisis is made by speculators, so the best way to cut them off is ... to cut them off ...

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No we wanna trade not cut them off. Look at all the money being made now. Damn it is now the money is made but not by retail. We the only segment without a line of sight. A broker would even give out zero spread for that information. We have a right to market visibility. Its the only way to trade without calling it a gamble. I am not gonna quit for them at anytime. So I am fighting back first with a model that simulates what they know that we do not know - order flow and next encouraging others to demand that information by right as part of the contract with brokers. In any case some are starting to get it I hear. The terrain is simply unfair otherwise and really they insult us taking our data to trade but not allowing us use that data.

PS the fact that such information has not made the stock market a piece of cake for traders explains why their keeping it is criminal. Plus that crap story about there being no central exchange in this age - all can pool it and its called sharing and the more reason - the market is unregulated.

tunera

Jul 23, 2012 2:48pm

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As i remember, the 2008 financial crisis found a bottom soon after the us did banned the bank shares short selling, this is not time anymore to play with the "systems" that work in normal times, be smart, understand what's happening.

mikelee

Jul 23, 2012 7:38am

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meaning damage control... and dampening free trade

Patraulea

Jul 23, 2012 8:19am

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A cheaper EURO will boost exports, so there is a good side in everything!

Jul 23, 2012 7:37am

Ya..! its correct..!

Jul 23, 2012 8:18am

Don't 4get greece

Jul 23, 2012 8:27am

swiss and yaun do not like cheap euro

piptastic

Jul 23, 2012 12:56pm

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can they ever ban shortselling in Forex? is that possible?

cristianloga

Jul 23, 2012 9:31am

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I just can't see Germany's Euro at parity with the $. Would be too attractive to buy. yet caution here, large players spike it down before they buy...

Jul 23, 2012 7:48am

uh oh......lol

Jul 23, 2012 7:53am

It does NOT mean that Spanish stocks will rally - in fact, most likely the market will fall. That does imply that holders of stock are forced to take a loss if they wish to sell their holdings.

Trader#805E

Jul 23, 2012 8:05am

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Quoting asingh601

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Sir Please Explain why EUR/USD will down 1.000 by end of Year?

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Please explain to me why it would go up? I can't come up with any reason unless someone steps in with market manipulation.

Euro is down 600pips in July, it went down over 900pips in May, it's down over 2,400pips in the past 12 months!

novbruff

Jul 23, 2012 8:17am

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bad news come out over and over again everyday..lol poor euro

rajnikanth

Jul 23, 2012 8:28am

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i have been just going through the COT report....the biggies are increasing their long position in euro. as per latest report they have $32 billion in long contracts...

richi rich

Jul 23, 2012 9:52am

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i know one thing .. when eur go high.. brack all the recds ... so sty with the long eur...

Trader#CAA1

Jul 23, 2012 2:26pm

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I also believe your prediction is absolutely right, i would look at it again at 1.15 and see where the economy is at that time.....With that said keep your mind open to squeeze plays, 1.12 by end of the year respectfully, plenty of money to be made in eur/usd !