"I just love it how the punters in Oz think they can f......

"I just love it how the punters in Oz think they can f... around.
HSO, VOC, TPM all in the same boat. One down 2 to go.
Squeeze them hard!"


I'll never understand why some people tend to single out a certain particular minor category of share market participant - namely those who short-sell stocks - for special mention (even vitriol), when shorters are merely just one of the many different kinds of investors that inhabit the stock market.

You don't, for example, get people saying:

"Squeeze those Income Investors hard!", or

"Burn, you Growth-at-a-Reasonable-Price Investors!", or

"Those Quant Funds are pure evil", or

"The ASX is being manipulated by those European-based, Pan Asia funds."


The fact is, short-sellers - like any other investors - have zero impact on the either the quality, or the fundamental value of any business.

If anything, investors who take a considered approach to wealth creation, should be welcoming short-sellers; because they provide opportunities for those considered investors to buy shares at materially lower prices than they otherwise would have been.