LRS General Discussion, page-15998

Does CommSec allow short selling?Added to these inconveniences is that most of the online brokers, including CommSec, do not allow physical short selling.
Contracts for difference (CFDs) and options are more common strategies that allow investors to take a bet that the price of a share, or a basket of shares, will fall.18 Aug 2017.
Short selling, run by the AMERICAN FINRA enables investors and firms to participate in the market with confidence by safeguarding its integrity.

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but because they can short in Australia.

We have no control. CFR needs regulating, like the RBA and the only way we will get a change is making a noise before any election and making our votes count.

Our https://www.rba.gov.au/fin-stability/reg-framework/cfr.html just let it happen in Australia.

The RBA is being reregulated recently, but nothing mentioned about short selling as they think it helps stabilize the share market.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/110614/why-short-selling-legal-brief-history.asp20 June 2023 —

Support for more competition in the provision of clearing and settlement services. The Council of Financial Regulators (CFR), in cooperation.

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