They just banned short selling in US

Yes, you are.

How do you think these inverse ETF's actually reflect the inverse of the actual index?

 

Does after hours stock trading close at 8pm est? I am trying to buy some uk bank adrs.

 

Once they see how stocks go down with no shorts to cover they will rescind this.

Currently Joe public is using credit cards to replace the money he got from home equity, only a matter of time before he raids the 401K to fill the SUV.

 

............and all because GS stock went down.

 

"When I picked up my newspaper yesterday, I thought I woke up in France. But no, it turned out it was socialism here in the United States"

"We no longer have a free market in the United States, we have a government controlled free market''

- Senator Jim Bunning

If you want to short-sell now, better go trade on the French stock market - it's still legal there

 

This is not good news at all.

 

whatever helps you sleep at night...

 

The last time we pulled all this crap was the great depression.

The government is going to start monetizing all bad debt.

 

Emigrate to a genuinely free capitalist country, like France, where both short-selling and gambling are legal. Whatever you do, don't stay in a socialist command economy like the USA.

 

You can still pimp out your wife