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Don: AMZN was not the stock in question.. I'm not surprised on that one...
the entire planet has been shorting that stock just like they did KKD HAND
PALM.. etc.. The original post was in ref to two of the most widely held
stocks by the public.... MSFT INTC
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Ewers" <dbewers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2001 10:29 AM
Subject: Re: [RT] VERY HEAVY BLK activity ON MSFT
> I can confirm being unable to sell short with the responce from the
> brokerage firm "No stock available to loan on AMZN".
>
> After having shorted it three times from February to June, (upper teens to
> the 10-12 area), my last two attempts to sell it as it rallied back up in
> early July, were met with the above statement from Schwab?
> don ewers
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jean Jacques Chenier" <JChenier@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2001 6:52 AM
> Subject: Re: [RT] VERY HEAVY BLK activity ON MSFT
>
>
> > I can confirm that there had been some problems to short widely held
> stocks.
> > A lady friend of mine tried to short AMZN with e-Trade and the answer
was:
> > no AMZN available to loan. I can not believe that no e-Trades customers
> hold
> > AMZN so my guess is that e-Trade and some others (who cater exclusively
to
> > the individual investors who has a long biais) were orchestrating a
short
> > squeeze and manipulation seems very likely to me.
> >
> > Jean-Jacques
> > www.alterama.com
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Dorothy K. Carter" <dorothy.carter@xxxxxxxx>
> > To: <realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 8:18 PM
> > Subject: Re: [RT] VERY HEAVY BLK activity ON MSFT
> >
> >
> > > The average public has to play by rules I layed out I believe.. The
> point
> > > though was the list of stocks that were mentioned which are very
liquid
> > > widely held stocks...... so there should not be a problem shorting
those
> > > particular stocks...... that was my point... Your comments don't
point
> to
> > > any reason why those stocks would not be able to be shorted....... I
> can't
> > > speak for dealers or market makers or specialists.. obviously they
don't
> > > have to deal with uptick rule....... the average investor does ...
> though
> > > there has been talk about changing the uptick rule.. I know hedge
funds
> > are
> > > pushing for that change... So the back to the original question.... Do
> you
> > > really believe that this last week there would be a time when stocks
> like
> > > MSFT, INTC, ORCl etc could not be shorted unless the stock was not
> > > available by stock loan of the particular brokerage firm that this
> person
> > > was inquiring??????
>
>
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