Nitro wrote: I have always believed that excess regulation shows that we have not been creative enough. What people should be thinking is, let's invent a way where the market takes care of itself. What I mean by that is, figure out some exchange traded contract that would structurally prevent manipulative short selling. That is, it would create an arbitrage in the face of manipulative short selling. I know I am dreaming, but if some financial genius could invent such a contract, (s)he would win the Nobel Prize in Economics. ================= What a great idea. Do you have any thoughts on where to begin?