RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:Back to the Future,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Why do these US based shorters come in to Canada ? Are there not lots of stocks to short in the US? It is because a few years ago the Canadian regulators eliminated the so called UP TICK rule which still exists in the USA . Under the Up Tick rule shorts were only allowed to sell short on an uptick or side tick . Whenever that rule was eliminated in CANADA ONLY it allowed shorts to be made on a downtick and/or many downticks in a row. This means at the close for example I can enter an order to sell short 10000 shares of ABC stock at the market with the idea of creating a low close . This loop hole has caused professional US based shorters to enter Canada where they have been exploiting this loop hole