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Lol. This is what happens when you use Google as a teacher, but you don't actually click on the headline.You have a strange definition of the word fast.
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As you can see below it was adopted by the American financial markets in 1937 with the restriction that you could only short a rising stock.
That restriction was removed in 2007 (albeit as the last in a long line of regs getting 86ed since the Reagan era) and in 2008 the world had gone to shit because of the banks wallowing around like pigs in sh*t and creating a crisis that could have been avoided with better regulation.
So yeah, I call that pretty fast.
- The SEC adopted Rule 10a-1 in 1937, which stated market participants could legally sell short shares of stock only if it occurred on a price uptick from the previous sale.
- The uptick rule was eliminated in 2007, following a yearslong study that concluded that the regulation did little to curb abusive behavior and had the potential to limit market liquidity.
Why Is Short Selling Legal? A Brief History
Despite short selling's legal status and its apparent market benefits, many policymakers, regulators, and the public remain suspicious of the practice.
www.investopedia.com
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