Does The Lack of The Uptick Rule Make It Easier To Take Advantage Of Regular Investors?

With the computerization of trades, and computer algorithms and code created to make trades on the market automatically, I really think that it’s easier to take advantage of regular investors. Take Herbalife, for example…  When the famous hedge fund titan David Einhorn just questions some statements in Herbalife’s quarterly report, this served as a sell… Continue reading Does The Lack of The Uptick Rule Make It Easier To Take Advantage Of Regular Investors?

Where Is The Uptick Rule?

I watch the market recover today, enough so that the smaller retail investors (middle class investors) might have believed the market had turned and bought some stock.  Then WHAM, either the whales decided to take profit, or the automated machines (stock terminators? hasta la vista baby) kicked in and the DOW ended up down more than… Continue reading Where Is The Uptick Rule?