Margin trading ready at last
For years, mainland China has been preparing for margin trading and short sale of securities. With the securities regulator’s promulgation of a new guiding opinion, those preparations appear finally to be complete
Issue: March 2010
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margin trading
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CSRC
PRC Securities Law
The system of margin financing and short sale of securities stems from United States and plays a role in discovering and stabilising the price in a securities market. Under a perfect market system, overwhelming stock jobbing and gambling in the market causes the price of a stock to increase greatly; investors may sell the stocks, by securities financing, to make the price fall. Otherwise, when the price of a certain stock is underestimated, investors may buy the stock, by borrowing margins, to make the price rise. On the other hand, margin financing and short sale of securities is a positive way of boosting an active market, to utilise and enhance the existing capital in the market, and to enlarge the trade volume and strengthen liquidity to improve the investment function of the securities market. Until now, mainland China’s capital markets have lacked a shorting-mechanism.
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