Naked shorting

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I'll give you something to think about. For a long time, I've spent a big amount of time studying the short sales situation.  Taking you back to the SHO naked shorting days years ago, I personally studied many stocks with big short positions and similar attacks back then.  There were many stocks that if you added up the stock supposedly short and long, many problem stocks had a short position that was larger than the shares outstanding.  Then the big street houses and the regulators figured the public screaming was loud enough to finally do something about it.  Believe they set a deadline for cleaning all the naked short sales up somewhat out in time so that players had time to execute.   We all figured there were some stocks that would be put into short squeezes.   Alas, the deadline came, and amazingly  went without a ripple in the big shorted stocks price.  One of the most amaxing things I've witnessed in a street career.  I knew then that marketmakers had to be at the heart of this problem, and they also were given more lenient short sales exemptions allowing them to naked short their stocks .   This is the prime brokers, big houses that also greatly influence the regulatory area, as well as keep the SEC budget too low to address all problems.  I watched the biggest specialist firm in 2000 greatly influence the rules as well as spearhead changes that took away a lot of transparency.....fwiw   I seriously doubt this will ever be addressed as it should be.