But with every downtick in the stock price, the possibility looks more and more attractive.

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Example: He wants to do away with the downtick rule, which forbids shorting when a stock is sliding.

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Leave a precarious house of cards that will collapse from a single downtick.

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My algorithms calculate money flow by subtracting the value of trades made on a downtick from the value of trades made on an uptick.

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This could prompt some traders to exit those positions, and still others might sell, or go short, in an effort to profit on any short-term downtick.

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