Tivus, Inc. (TIVU)

[jwez]

I have an idea. I mentioned before that everyone lock up their shares. I currently have all of my shares locked up in a sell order for .1 so I have plenty of time to change that order accordingly. With the current float and current number of share holders we are averaging around 3.5 million per holder. I have a lot more than that and I know others do to. You may not, but there is no way to know how many freely trade-able shares there are. If you place all of your shares in a sell order, then there is no way for them to be used for shorting. In essence this can help create a greater short squeeze. I think it's worth a try to let the MM's know that they can't just keep playing with $TIVU like they have been.

http://www.contracts-for-difference.com/Borrowing-lending-shares.html

Q.: What can you do to prevent your shares holdings from being shorted?
A: Now what can the average personal investor do to stop their own shares being shorted, as believe me your own broker, if approached, WILL sell your own shares that they hold on your behalf as a nominee account.

There are two things you can do, the first is to certificate them but this is not obviously to everyone’s advantage but the alternative solution is simple. All you do is to phone your broker and put an order in saying that you wish to place your shares for sale at, for arguments sake, double today’s price. As they are 'on order' they cannot be lent out by your broker and in turn you are reducing the amount of 'free shares' out there that can be used for shorting purposes. And don't forget to move your limit order up when the price starts to recover, then, that way your shares can't be shorted - not much but helps :D.

Although an individual personal investor will not normally have enough shares to halt a concerted shorting attack, if a large number of holders did this it would reduce the overall amount of shares that they could get their hands on.

In my opinion well worth doing if not only for the knowledge that your own shares cannot and will not be used in a short attack against the very share that you own.