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Hi Charlie,

"Whilst the bears will do their best to upset the long term holders"

Charlie, I have a lot of friends who regularly trade markets for a living and particularly close to one person who is a very active shorter and indeed a very successful one at that.

But none of them set out to upset long term holders, they strive to make a profit as do the long term investors.

Whilst I don't agree with the practise of selling something that you don't own, I and everyone else are reminded by the fact that such a practise is fully sanctioned by the ASX and continued bickering on the subject is just a lot of wasted words.

I really don't think that shorting of stocks will ever be made illegal, and I guess that in a lot of cases shorting does help to stabilise markets.