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Trillo

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Fri Sep-19-08 03:31 AM
Response to Reply #23

24. I was asking for clarification from the prior poster

regarding what he or she meant. What they wrote was unclear, at least to me.

Regarding what you wrote, one difference between selling short and buying versus buying and then selling (besides the obvious order of transactions) is that with the short, a cover must be purchased at some future date; With an owned stock, there is no obligation to ever sell it. Therefore, it seems this skews the market value upward, and may be viewed as a manipulative gimmick.

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