Comments on: The Daily Show’s Misguided CNBC-ish Take On Short Selling With Help From OverStock.com Conspiracy Theorist Idiot Patrick Byrne http://www.timothysykes.com/2009/03/the-daily-shows-misguided-cnbc-ish-take-on-short-selling-with-help-from-overstock.com-conspiracy-theorist-idiot-patrick-byrne/ How To Trade Penny Stocks Without The Stock Promoter BS Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:14:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chef Biggsby http://www.timothysykes.com/2009/03/the-daily-shows-misguided-cnbc-ish-take-on-short-selling-with-help-from-overstock.com-conspiracy-theorist-idiot-patrick-byrne/comment-page-1/#comment-39014 Chef Biggsby Sun, 22 Mar 2009 01:14:57 +0000 http://test.timothysykes.com/?p=4623#comment-39014 Yes, it's true that if companies simply did better they would actually make the stock price go higher. I think the problem is that this is in exchange for the stock potentially going lower in the face of some manufactured news or even just a broad market scare in which float would be liquidating their positions causing short sellers ,who have no tangible reason to sell the stock other than that they think it will go down, to all jump on the bandwagon and sell sell sell. At the end of the day what all of this really amounts to is an increased amount of volatility in the price of the stock, which is excellent for traders and not so great for companies. Yes, it’s true that if companies simply did better they would actually make the stock price go higher. I think the problem is that this is in exchange for the stock potentially going lower in the face of some manufactured news or even just a broad market scare in which float would be liquidating their positions causing short sellers ,who have no tangible reason to sell the stock other than that they think it will go down, to all jump on the bandwagon and sell sell sell. At the end of the day what all of this really amounts to is an increased amount of volatility in the price of the stock, which is excellent for traders and not so great for companies.

]]> By: Chef Biggsby http://www.timothysykes.com/2009/03/the-daily-shows-misguided-cnbc-ish-take-on-short-selling-with-help-from-overstock.com-conspiracy-theorist-idiot-patrick-byrne/comment-page-1/#comment-82642 Chef Biggsby Sun, 22 Mar 2009 01:14:57 +0000 http://test.timothysykes.com/?p=4623#comment-82642 Yes, it's true that if companies simply did better they would actually make the stock price go higher. I think the problem is that this is in exchange for the stock potentially going lower in the face of some manufactured news or even just a broad market scare in which float would be liquidating their positions causing short sellers ,who have no tangible reason to sell the stock other than that they think it will go down, to all jump on the bandwagon and sell sell sell. At the end of the day what all of this really amounts to is an increased amount of volatility in the price of the stock, which is excellent for traders and not so great for companies. Yes, it’s true that if companies simply did better they would actually make the stock price go higher. I think the problem is that this is in exchange for the stock potentially going lower in the face of some manufactured news or even just a broad market scare in which float would be liquidating their positions causing short sellers ,who have no tangible reason to sell the stock other than that they think it will go down, to all jump on the bandwagon and sell sell sell. At the end of the day what all of this really amounts to is an increased amount of volatility in the price of the stock, which is excellent for traders and not so great for companies.

]]> By: YoungGunz http://www.timothysykes.com/2009/03/the-daily-shows-misguided-cnbc-ish-take-on-short-selling-with-help-from-overstock.com-conspiracy-theorist-idiot-patrick-byrne/comment-page-1/#comment-39015 YoungGunz Sat, 21 Mar 2009 23:40:43 +0000 http://test.timothysykes.com/?p=4623#comment-39015 yesh dsily show just like any other news station just cut and isolate what they need to fit whst their own biased opinion is. they wanted to make a story about short sellers being evil and destroying companies and leave a lot of film on the edit room floor. short sellers wouldn't be shorting a stock if there wasn't already an unbalance in their value vs their price. yesh dsily show just like any other news station just cut and isolate what they need to fit whst their own biased opinion is. they wanted to make a story about short sellers being evil and destroying companies and leave a lot of film on the edit room floor. short sellers wouldn’t be shorting a stock if there wasn’t already an unbalance in their value vs their price.

]]> By: YoungGunz http://www.timothysykes.com/2009/03/the-daily-shows-misguided-cnbc-ish-take-on-short-selling-with-help-from-overstock.com-conspiracy-theorist-idiot-patrick-byrne/comment-page-1/#comment-82643 YoungGunz Sat, 21 Mar 2009 23:40:43 +0000 http://test.timothysykes.com/?p=4623#comment-82643 yesh dsily show just like any other news station just cut and isolate what they need to fit whst their own biased opinion is. they wanted to make a story about short sellers being evil and destroying companies and leave a lot of film on the edit room floor. short sellers wouldn't be shorting a stock if there wasn't already an unbalance in their value vs their price. yesh dsily show just like any other news station just cut and isolate what they need to fit whst their own biased opinion is. they wanted to make a story about short sellers being evil and destroying companies and leave a lot of film on the edit room floor. short sellers wouldn’t be shorting a stock if there wasn’t already an unbalance in their value vs their price.

]]> By: Timothy Sykes http://www.timothysykes.com/2009/03/the-daily-shows-misguided-cnbc-ish-take-on-short-selling-with-help-from-overstock.com-conspiracy-theorist-idiot-patrick-byrne/comment-page-1/#comment-39016 Timothy Sykes Sat, 21 Mar 2009 23:20:23 +0000 http://test.timothysykes.com/?p=4623#comment-39016 best way to counter short selling is for companies to do well...if they did, theyd squeeze all the shorts and push their stocks higher! best way to counter short selling is for companies to do well…if they did, theyd squeeze all the shorts and push their stocks higher!

]]> By: Timothy Sykes http://www.timothysykes.com/2009/03/the-daily-shows-misguided-cnbc-ish-take-on-short-selling-with-help-from-overstock.com-conspiracy-theorist-idiot-patrick-byrne/comment-page-1/#comment-82644 Timothy Sykes Sat, 21 Mar 2009 23:20:23 +0000 http://test.timothysykes.com/?p=4623#comment-82644 best way to counter short selling is for companies to do well...if they did, theyd squeeze all the shorts and push their stocks higher! best way to counter short selling is for companies to do well…if they did, theyd squeeze all the shorts and push their stocks higher!

]]> By: Andrew Horowitz http://www.timothysykes.com/2009/03/the-daily-shows-misguided-cnbc-ish-take-on-short-selling-with-help-from-overstock.com-conspiracy-theorist-idiot-patrick-byrne/comment-page-1/#comment-39017 Andrew Horowitz Sat, 21 Mar 2009 22:21:07 +0000 http://test.timothysykes.com/?p=4623#comment-39017 Btw Looks to me like there were several cut in order To prove points. Funny Andrew Btw

Looks to me like there were several cut in order
To prove points. Funny
Andrew

]]> By: Andrew Horowitz http://www.timothysykes.com/2009/03/the-daily-shows-misguided-cnbc-ish-take-on-short-selling-with-help-from-overstock.com-conspiracy-theorist-idiot-patrick-byrne/comment-page-1/#comment-82645 Andrew Horowitz Sat, 21 Mar 2009 22:21:07 +0000 http://test.timothysykes.com/?p=4623#comment-82645 Btw Looks to me like there were several cut in order To prove points. Funny Andrew Btw

Looks to me like there were several cut in order
To prove points. Funny
Andrew

]]> By: coen http://www.timothysykes.com/2009/03/the-daily-shows-misguided-cnbc-ish-take-on-short-selling-with-help-from-overstock.com-conspiracy-theorist-idiot-patrick-byrne/comment-page-1/#comment-39021 coen Sat, 21 Mar 2009 20:44:06 +0000 http://test.timothysykes.com/?p=4623#comment-39021 Tim, in still wondering, does short selling really pushes stock prices down? Naked short selling would be a different story...but normal shorting for a couple of 100K dollar isnt gonna make a company go bankrupt. If a company dies, its because it sucks right..not because some ppl decided to short ...right? Tim, in still wondering, does short selling really pushes stock prices down? Naked short selling would be a different story…but normal shorting for a couple of 100K dollar isnt gonna make a company go bankrupt. If a company dies, its because it sucks right..not because some ppl decided to short …right?

]]> By: coen http://www.timothysykes.com/2009/03/the-daily-shows-misguided-cnbc-ish-take-on-short-selling-with-help-from-overstock.com-conspiracy-theorist-idiot-patrick-byrne/comment-page-1/#comment-82649 coen Sat, 21 Mar 2009 20:44:06 +0000 http://test.timothysykes.com/?p=4623#comment-82649 Tim, in still wondering, does short selling really pushes stock prices down? Naked short selling would be a different story...but normal shorting for a couple of 100K dollar isnt gonna make a company go bankrupt. If a company dies, its because it sucks right..not because some ppl decided to short ...right? Tim, in still wondering, does short selling really pushes stock prices down? Naked short selling would be a different story…but normal shorting for a couple of 100K dollar isnt gonna make a company go bankrupt. If a company dies, its because it sucks right..not because some ppl decided to short …right?

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