Anyone know of stocks that you can have short postions in after the "ban".

 

You can short any stock you want, as long as it's not one of the 800 some financial companies on this list:
http://www.sec.gov/rules/other/2008/34-58592.pdf

The short selling ban is scheduled to expire next Thursday anyway.

Andrew

 

Thanks. I knew they banned financials but today someone indicated that they may have banned more shorts.

 

You CAN short ETFs and you can still invest in short and ultrashort ETFs regardless of which stocks they index. ETFs deal in stock futures not stocks themselves. The that end you can also sell index futures short write naked call options and buy put options on anything.

There is more than one way to skin a cat and you don't hear people complaining about it too loudly because the big players in the game know how. What they are complaining about, or at least worried about, is having to disclose their short positions. Hedge funds benefit from stealth and will often times work both sides of a trade, especially around options expirations to make those positions come good.

 

We can't even short a lot of financial related ETF's at work. It only really effects scalps though. A few guys were looking at stocks with large naked short positions and the stocks still didn't spike during the time they "fixed" their standings. People have figured out ways around it and it's all in vain anyways.