ProShares announcement: it was the ban.
Posted By Mike On Sep 19, 2008 @ 11:36 am In Shorts, TEOTWAWKI, crash, short selling | 5 Comments
ProShares Announcement
Friday September 19, 11:25 am ET
BETHESDA, Md.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Due to the emergency action announced by the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 18, 2008, temporarily prohibiting short sales of shares of certain financial companies, Short Financials ProShares (SEF) and UltraShort Financials ProShares (SKF) are not expected to accept orders from Authorized Participants to create shares until further notice. Unless notified otherwise, shares will be available for redemption by Authorized Participants as normal. The shares of these ProShares are expected to trade in the financial markets today, but may trade at prices that are not in line with their intraday indicative values.
No more SKF for me, ever. I’m on an accelerated schedule to get out of the rest of my short ETFs. [1] Too many wild cards, not enough disclosure.
Long-term puts only from now on. I had hoped to hold onto the ETFs until we started to really plunge, because I had figured market functions would hold up that long, but we are apparently on an [2] express train to Animal Farm.
I wonder how many others feel the same? I bet this week’s shenanigans are going to put a lot of people off the markets entirely. All they have done is burn a few shorts and set the markets up for a rapid retracement of the last 900 Dow points, plus give or take a couple thousand to the downside.
Markets don’t drop because of shorts (though shorts can drive them up fast). Markets drop with the scales off of longs’ eyes.
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[1] Too many wild cards, not enough disclosure: http://sovereignspeculator.com/2008/09/17/counterparty-risk-too-acute-in-short-and-levered-etfs/
[2] express train to Animal Farm: http://sovereignspeculator.com/2008/09/18/sec-intends-to-ban-short-selling-boxcars-reported-in-green
wich/
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