Hi Vhf!
That trading halt on ABK blew up all my shorts on the financials today. I was lucky to get out with my ass. Of course shortly after I covered, the news came out on the deal and its not all that bullish. So I put on a quick short on Citibank and made a bit of cash. But overall, the news is going to stay bad for a long time with the financials, and I plan to underwrite my buying of the mining stocks by shorting the hell out of those pigs. In fact, I believe AIG is short a lot of silver and they are going to be blown away, so I plan to start shorting that one next.
cheers!
mike