re: #21 Skip Intro
You can only short a stock on an uptick. Seen any upticks lately?
What’s really weird (and I don’t know if I am reading too much into this) but at 2:03p ET, Bloomberg (and a couple of other outlets aren’t showing a DJIA figure later that 1:20 (when it was 21,792 - down 653).
I’m old enough to remember when a “late tape” meant serious market selloff/Black-Friday-level disaster. Thought that was back when there was an actual (paper) “tape” - and even a few million shares of volume would cause it to run late…..