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Re:Statement of SEC Regarding Recent Market Volatility by FabHK on Friday January 29, 2021 @11:42AM (#25959233)
Agreed fully. The 2x long, -1 short limit is just a neat, natural limit that one could discuss, and might be easier to enforce than other (similarly arbitrary) limits.
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Re:Statement of SEC Regarding Recent Market Volatility by kgwgk on Friday January 29, 2021 @11:44AM (#25959263)
I'm not against that, but it's not trivial to implement either.
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Re:Statement of SEC Regarding Recent Market Volatility by FabHK on Friday January 29, 2021 @12:23PM (#25959794)
Would require to set up a central registry or so, yeah. (Or finally a use case for blockchain!!!1!!! :-)

Not sure it would be worth it, I think historically excessive shorting has rarely been a problem, except for a few colourful episodes like these.

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