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Title: Would short selling bring more efficiency to BTC valuation?
Post by: ezl on June 14, 2011, 02:33:51 AM
An article about why banning short selling reduces market efficiency: http://stefanmikarlsson.blogspot.com/2008/11/why-bans-on-short-selling-reduces.html


Title: Re: Would short selling bring more efficiency to BTC valuation?
Post by: lessPlastic on June 14, 2011, 02:40:44 AM
I've read about this quite a bit lately. Mt. Gox does plan to implement short selling. However, a truly efficient market is impossible per the efficient market theory.