You can tell the bears are getting panicky when all the triangles come out! Pythagoras must be rolling in his grave!
You are becoming more and more manic by the minute T.Stuart.
Having just read that it is possible to short Bitcoin on Bitfinex, I headed right over there to register and open an account. I then set about finding the option to short bitcoin. The Bitfinex site does not make this a very straightforward process, but I soon discovered the shorting option only to find that there is absolutely nobody interested in lending out Bitcoins to a short seller at this point in time.
Now what does that tell you?
(a big fkn queue of wannabe short-sellers and a distinct lack of
mugs Bitcoin holders willing to loan out their Bitcoins to shorters chasing clear and obvious profits)
I think the margin system is temporarily down. Notice there's no long or short margin available? The interest rate on the short margin is also 0.02% which is very low. That would rise to over 1% before there was truly no margin available.
I got my short order in this morning and am currently riding out the storm
Edit:
Margin appears to be working again. This is what I'm seeing...
Available Long - 1625.26 BTC at 0.42 to 0.73%/day
Available Short - 2437.99 BTC at 0.01 to 0.03%/day