SRL for [beaten]: Another proposed reform is to have program traders answer to an `` uptick rule '' a reform instituted after the Great Crash of 1929 that protects against stocks being relentlessly [beaten] downward by those seeking to profit from lower prices , namely short sellers .
ARG-1: stocks | ARG-M-MNR: relentlessly | ARG-2: downward | ARG-0: by those seeking to profit from lower prices , namely short sellers