Where as I do think people are looking way too much into short reports that aren't legit you ruin your argument with your last couple of statements. 1. You can short a penny stock, there are offshore brokers that actually make it very economically feasible. 2. It can be a great idea to short a penny stock as how many of them keep there gains on large runs? Most are pump and dumps and shorting into a worn out p&d is about as sure of a thing as there is. 3. Well lets just look at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Sykes