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Dorthy,
My reply was to Jean Jacques and his comments on shorting AMZN. See the
post below mine.
don ewers
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dorothy Carter" <dorothy.carter@xxxxxxxx>
To: <realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2001 10:01 AM
Subject: Re: [RT] VERY HEAVY BLK activity ON MSFT
> 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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