Shorting

After the gathering on Sunday, I learned something really useful from one of the people who turned up. That is shorting in the market.

Shorting in very real in the market. And there are ways to find out whether there are genuine sellers in the market, or are they people who are simply shorting the market to make a quick buck.

Here are a few ways

• Big sell down in price, but no substantial shareholders are doing the selling
• Shorting facilities stop allowing people to short. For example CFDs stop the shorting of a particular stock
  

Anyone who has any more ideas? feel free to comment!