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December 14, 2008

We Don’t Require an Uptick Rule

This is a unproblematic issue.

It applyed to be that you couldn’t inadequate a stock unless there was an uptick. The idea was that this uptick rule would keep inadequate sellers from piling on a stock and laboring the price down. So the uptick rule was removed. It got permissable to take up shares of stock and trade them whether or not the stock had clicked up or not. The result ? Nothing. Not a darn thing modifyed.

Well companies operated on their companies good. They recognised that little sellers just now made succeeding demand for their stocks. If they forced the price down to young lows, it exactly produced an opportunity for investors to purchase the company at inexpensive prices. Hence be it. Dear companies aren’t defined by their stock prices, they are defined by their operations.

On the flipside are badly handled companies. Badly carryed off companies ever take for granted the current business environment will abide the way it is. The heavy investment banks opined they could ever lift capital and deploy it at higher returns. Which is a swell model to pry up to mash every potential nickel out. It forms it well-heeled to catch your bonus and constitutes shareholders who but devote attention to the stock price well-chosen.

Except that leverage is risk. E’er has been, e’er will be. When you dont handle your risk easily, you give the consequences.

The problem with the likes of Lehmans, Bear Stearns et al, wasn’t that their stock prices were forced down, it was that they had suited unforesightful and excessively leveraged. They had not debated all potential negatively charged scenarios. When they were thrust to compose down assets and couldnt take access to loans because no one commited their balance sheets, they were without capital. When they were without capital, they were SOL. Deleveraging fetched their intact business models going down down on with their stock prices. Lehman went away, the rest produced government bailouts or were born on to be corrupted out.


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If they had not o’er leveraged, the price of their stock would not have weighed. If they had dealt their risks the right way, their stock price would not have counted. The uptick rule had nothing to do with their failures. Management did. To fault it on the uptick rule is nonsensical. Companies that hadn’t overlevered and stuck by their loaning and business principles caught on just o.k.. Their stock prices did simply o.k. as good. It truly as elementary as that.

Does anyone truly intend that yet if there was an uptick rule and stock prices were not as explosive and still mayhap higher, that anyone would have yielded Lehman’s capital in a individual raise with all the uncertainty about their balance sheet ?

Place another way, if the uptick rule pushed down prices, it should have been EASIER for the fiscal companies to conjure money. Impudent investors would have recognized the strength of their balance sheets and fain jumped at the chance to place money at prices depressed by those awful poor sellers capitalizing on the lack of an uptick rule.

That’s not what befell. What fell out is precisely what should have come about. Well companies did good. Badly head for the hills companies didn’t. Those in the middle got prosperous and bailed out. The uptick had zero impact.

Thats not to suppose inadequate sellers didn’t pick on the fiscal companies. Of course they did. They did indeed because they were ill handled. They were right

When you listen someone talk of geting backward the uptick rule as a solution. Laugh. So assure them “Larry Bird is not waking through that door”.

      

Sunnie Black - Material Estate Agent/Broker, Displacing and Relocation

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