This article is laughable, check out this quote: "In recent days we have been often asked by mainland regulators not to hold short positions in index futures," said a Chinese derivatives trader at a European bank in Hong Kong." In other words, this mean that the regulators don't want to have a futures trading market at all! Gee, what a lack of basic market knowledge these people have... http://www.reuters.com/article/2015...9E20150804?feedType=RSS&feedName=businessNews
That's Leftism for you. Manipulate and control everything stinking little thing until it all falls down. Leftists don't care if they destroy everything... so long as they get to rule over the rubble. America, included!!
During the financial crises a few European exchanges I trade on tried to ban short selling for various lengths of time. Liquidity dropped and volatility went through the roof and the markets still dropped as much as all the other indices across the world. Lefties are like faith healers and other quacks. Paint a picture the uneducated like the sound of and back it up with strategies that science has disproven