I don't think TDA allows its customers to short penny stocks. However, the MMs might get caught short, even though they're not supposed to short unsolicited gray stocks, either. If they're worried about their shorts getting toasted, maybe they ought to raise the margin requirements on those positions, forcing them to cover. I know I wouldn't want anybody short in any accounts I had to bear responsibility for, unless those positions were margined to an extreme degree. All this activity does suggest that something may be in the works, though. I'm just surprised we're not inching up any more than we are. Same old sideways pattern, though. Oh, well.
A good bottom's hard to beat.
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