Afternoon trading April 1, page-202

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    OT and may be a silly question, but I'm hoping someone in here will have an answer. What's stopping someone making easy money by shorting a bank or another company 1 or 2 days before it goes ex div then covering just after the ex div date when the SP drops?
 
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