"No Short Sellers (When the SEC and other world regulators banned short selling in the market place, they inevitably took away the natural forces to make a market bottom, as shorts eventually cover and provide the support mechanism needed to make a bottom in the marketplace, a natural occurrence that this time will not occur)"

I don't quite agree with you on this one as the shorts are just one group among many anticipating the bottom and getting in at the right time to maximize profits. There are millions of entities out there that are all doing the same thing. What is truly ridiculous is that all of these investors are chomping at the bit to be told it's safe to go back into the market and are looking forward to it as no one wants to sit around with a declining dollar in their pocket..... but like a class of students, they're all looking around to see who is brave enough to go first.

The masses have been conditioned to respond to the market media and the big flushing out of investors has transfered a lot of wealth to other hands on cue. They say there is great opportunity during disaster and there are certainly a lot of beneficiaries that saw this one coming and seized the opportunity. I suspect there is going to be a lot of changes as things turn around. Many will be surprised who their new bedfellows are. As has been mentioned today, for every share sold one is being bought. As many scurry from the markets they likely aren't taking any time to notice who is calmly picking up their shares.