Recent content by Loada Dosh

Hi Frugi, I’m truly impressed by the effort you are putting into this, and wish you well, but as Eureka says your trades are beginning to resemble that of a roulette player. Remember the winning roulette system Larry came up with, you could make more by using that I bet. I’m being serious...

I’ve been away on business for a few days, got back this morning. Having just read the latest posts on this thread, I've answered a couple, and also looked back at some previous ones, I’m still surprised at what I perceive to be a distortion of the facts, particularly by using over...

Jpwone You make an interesting point by drawing analogies with margin trading. But with respect there is a distinction as on the margin buy trade, the individual/firm puts up their own money and /or collateral that they rightfully own in order to purchase shares. This contrasts with the short...

DaveJB You take the view that since few people have supported me on this thread I should shut up as I must be a moron. You are entitled to your opinion, but your view has nothing to do with the debate here, it’s an excuse you are giving not a reason, but since you've given it, let’s take a...

I would like to address this false concept many of you appear to be desperately clinging onto that the shares are borrowed with the consent of the rightful owner and subsequently sold in accordance with the owner's agreement. This is a mantra touted continually by those trying to justify this...

Guys and Gals, To avoid any misunderstanding, I’m not arguing that short selling is illegal or that traders can’t make money by short selling, far from it. My position from the start has been that it is an unethical, inequitable and, in the final analysis, an unpatriotic thing to do. Looking...

Hi Frugi I'd almost forgotten you had left iii for here, I hope you are keeping well. If I may speak frankly, and no disrespect intended, but some people may view this thread as rather pretentious. You already have your own web site on which you publish your trading activities, so why the...

Many of you are attempting well argued replies, but from my perspective your attempts to support short selling are in the main not reasons but excuses. I suggest you read carefully over what you have written and ask yourself is it a reason you are actually giving or is it an excuse? For...

jpwone Of course not, but if people want to play this shorting game they can use the option market instead can’t they? There is a basic equitable principle here. Short selling, and I’m not so much thinking of the small players but the large ones, sell shares they don’t own for the purpose of...

donalduke & TBS Not sure I totally follow your drifts here, but sounds an interesting line of thought so let’s try to develop it further. It seems to me you are falling ionto the trap of looking at it from just one perspective. Let’s say I buy 1000 TRK shares and deliver the certificate to a...

Some very good points made by several of you, and it is clear the quality of the posts here is far superior to many of the boards I’ve visited. Interesting tactics used to combat and/or discredit the argument I have raised so far. One line of attack was to question my objection to short...

The basic principle I have outlined in my previous message is easy to understand, and I’m convinced the majority of people know instinctively that short selling is plain and simply theft, they are taking someone else’s property and using it without their permission. To argue as one poster has...

What most, but to their credit not all, of the pro-shorters on this thread so far appear to be saying is that no harm is done by shorting. To take one example, that the rightful owner of the shares ( those that have gone long) have not been harmed. So let’s try to follow the logic of that line...

Forgive me for saying this, but most of you can't see the wood from trees and appear to be motivated by greed rather than looking to the benefits of a company and this country, by which I mean the UK, as a whole. The old argument about liquidity has been spouted out again but that argument was...

Selling a share into a market if you don’t take the risk to go long first ain’t right. It undermines what markets are designed to do which is the creation of capital. Selling short is unpatriotic and I hope it will eventually be banned. Chris