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RE:BTB.UN Short Strategy?

[Martincat]

The shorter is often the house as in casino....Questrade=house....As most shares are held in street name, there is an ample supply of share available for shorting....Questrade does not have to pay the 15% fee...It only has to cover the original owner if he wants to sell or have the shares registered in his name....Sometime houses work together...and don`t forget the hedge funds...So when these pros decide to run the price up....it does and they reap the profit....They also use puts and calls...with the help of sophisticated computer programs....The smaller the share float, the easier it is to manipulate the price.  So the little guy=retail investor is trading at a disadvantage...and most of the time is ignorant of what`s going on....It`s a tough game to be in!....JMHO