Breaking the short capital destruction cycle
Jim Cramer knows how to play the game, he was one of the hedge fund managers. He also knows how to stop them. The (originally British) plan goes beyond restoring […]
Naked short selling doesn’t exist?
These people are basically criminals, but they get the Royal treatment from CNBC..
Shame on the SEC: InterOil’s huge share delivery problems
These figures come from buyins.net. We have been granted permission to publish them (many thanks Buyins.net!) Buyins get their figures directly from the SEC. It is a figure of shame. […]
Naked short selling is a crime, and this is how they do it
The SEC has clamped down on short selling of almost a thousand financial (and two non-financial) companies, but the real crime is naked short selling, selling shares that haven’t even […]
It’s getting ever more difficult to borrow shares for shorting..
Shorting shares is becoming more difficult with the SEC waking up from a long stupor and lending shares being hampered. From the WSJ.
Short positions, even intra-day, have to be disclosed
The plot thickens. We could soon know which funds are short in InterOil. They are likely to be the same that have sold 3.6M shares nakedly short. We might not […]
Dr. Patrick Byrne on naked short-selling
Dr. Patrick Byrne, CEO of Overstock has had more than his fair share of naked shorting. But this is not a guy who lays down and takes it, he fights […]
More pressure on naked shorting
After the temporary emergency rules for 19 financials proved to be a success, the SEC will propose a marketwide solution to combat naked shorting, or more especially, failures to deliver […]
There is real momentum against naked shorting
The Senior Vice President of Citi/Smith Barney pleading in a letter to extent the emergency rules currently in place for 19 financials against naked shorting (forcing shorters to borrow the […]