Ok, so they’ve gone and banned short selling, temporarily, and for financial stocks only. By the way some of the press has reacted, you’d think it was the end of the world!

I like to short, and it’s an annoyance than this perfectly acceptable practice (IMHO) has been suspended. But guess what? We can still make plenty of profit without going short.

I never normally trade Fridays, I like my long weekends. But because this week has been so packed with opportunity, and particularly because I wanted to prove a point about the short selling ban not being a problem, I traded today and recorded the results. Do you think I was able to make any money taking only long trades? Find out in the video:

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