what's silly about margin trading at this point is that the price is going to steadily rise and as that's happening, more shorts are going to be placed, which means they're selling, even if they don't actually own it, they're still selling at what they think is a high price, then that results in the price actually moving up, in which case they hit their stop losses and then try to reshort again. by the time they know it, the price is way above the current price, they see it as too late to get in on the uptrend and then short again. it's such a vicious cycle and i know because i've done it. this uptrend is perfect for this month end. please just look at the last three month ends.