NorthWest Biotherapeutics Inc (NWBO)

[Doktornolittle]

Could short activity be monitored better ? When the "Flash Crash" occurred they concluded after about six months of analysis that they could not conclude anything. They can't trace who did what.

At least that is what I remember happening...

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Yet I am told that since I have a margin account that everything I trade has my name on it. Not just visible to the Feds... but apparently to anyone with means.

TD told me that if I had a Roth (or perhaps other IRA's), my name would not be on trades. I asked what about a Non-IRA, Non-Margin account.... just a regular account. They told me they could not answer that question.
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The feds record every internet activity for posterity... for post analysis to fight trrsm. And they screen every phone call for key words, and record the call if any key words or phrases generate interest.... and they know that the financing of terrorism is often done through the stockmarket... such as shorting the stock of a company that will be damaged by a trrst act... but they cannot trace down what happened in the flash crash because there are business entities more powerful than the fed that don't care to provide such information.

That is my understanding.

So... could we track shorts better...? No. There are powerful people that don't care to cough up such information... so no, we can't.