Found this speech interesting, and happen to agree with a lot of what was said. (You can move this to another thread if need be, I'm still trading, LOL). exerpt: Short selling helps ensure that securities prices are not systematically biased higher than the fundamentals warrant, as could be the case if prices did not reflect the less optimistic views of short sellers. Good read: http://www.sec.gov/news/speech/2009/spch050609tap.htm Don