Marker Therapeutics Inc (MRKR)

[microcapbiotech]

Hi Eagle1,

Personally I don't short stocks for the same reason I buy and hold (mainly).
If you buy and hold the most downside you have is 100% loss, but you unlimited upside, 1000%, 8000%, like pcyc,alny,qcom owned all early.
Opposite with shorting, if your short is correct, your most upside is limited to 100% gain if the stock drops to zero, BUT your potential loss if it skyrockets up is unlimited.

To your question, a couple things.
Brokers can only let you "borrow" the shares if the broker has clients that own that stock in a margin account, they can't borrow shares from non margin accounts.

Also, us on this board would not be able to stop shorts, I read what people on this board own, 20k shares here, and 19k shares there, and 15+k shares, and we are not all with the same broker.

Also, I wouldn't do that for this reason, I take 15k shares and put a sell limit at 15 or 18 or 20, I'm going to feel awful sick if great FDA trial news comes out, I get sold at 15 and it ends the day at 25.

These shorters may be getting to us in the short term, but their day will come soon and they will be caught in a short squeeze and then we can all laugh at them as we count our $.

Also, check on the dark pool site I listed, if you see TPIV being bought in a dark pool, pile on in with them.