SHORT-SALE RULE
Short-Sale Rule is also referred to as ‘plus-ticket rule’, ‘uptick rule’, or ‘tick-test rule’. It is a regulation under the Securities and Exchange Commission passed in 1938 that prohibits the short sales of stock from put in a being down tick in the share’s market price. Short sales are only allowed in upticks or zero-plus ticks.
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