Equity at 36 was quite a BUY. Had bought it at 40.3 a week or so before you put out these buy recommendations and was down 11.76%. I couldn't believe one could lose that much in 2 weeks. Plus @Ericsson would camp at the Equity thread posting all manner of negative stuff ......from money disappearing from client accounts to how long it would take Equity to break even from investments in DRC, Rwanda, Zambia and Mozambique, while propping up KCB.
Well, 2.5 months later, the Repeal happened!

I'm a tad disappointed that banks haven't rallied further even after release of Q3 results, the bear pressure is unrelenting...the market hasn't gone anywhere near the 3000 mark.

I thought s/he meant "accumulating a war chest"

Talk to your brokers. Safcom equity, kcb, eabl, bat, kengen and bamburi are eligible for shorting (not sure about the last two) as is the NSE25. Thin volumes though so it's hard not to leave footprints.

My broker told me the same thing. I would love to hear someone's experience on short trades.