Zion Oil & Gas Inc (ZNOG)

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" Technically a naked short, since it has no shares of its own to sell. This goes onto the consolidated tape and also shows up on the Daily Reg SHO. This is what your "nakedshortreport" site is displaying. On a separate leg of the very same trade transaction, often in nanoseconds, the MM purchases 500 shares from my ask to close their open position, that gets reported to the NON TAPE report. All of this trade execution information flows through FINRA."

http://regsho.finra.org/FNSQshvol20190118.txt

if all this info - both tape and non tape- "flows thru finra" then why doesnt finra take into account the non-tape info to reconcile the transaction instead of showing the 500 nontape shares as a short or a naked short??
So why does finra show the descriptive ''short volume'' on the daily regsho for those 500 shares often covered in nanoseconds

in doing so arent you saying finra is misleading ppl by not reconciling the non tape shares(where you say the short is often covered in nanoseconds)in the regsho report with the tape shares? If what u say is true then finras reporting of the temporary short as "short volume " at the end if the day causes great confusion.

My thought logically has always been if the temporary short is covered in seconds or nanoseconds then why dont the mm's wait the seconds or nanoseconds at the end of day when they are required to report to finra(i recognize the transactions occur throughout the day)
i have never seen the explanation that the covering of the short is a non-tape transaction before-wish i could believe that-even if i did the questions above still remain

i am definitely NOT an expert on the shorting process -i've never had enough interest in it to be-but the longs who are experts swear by the daily finra short reports,as do the sites who report short reports for companies,as do the sites which track % of shorts for companies with 30% often claimed as the territory where shorts can be bitten and forced to cover

all those sites and reports depend on the daily finra regsho short report-
finra knows that!!!-so if what u are saying is true it would be even more important for finra to reconcile the tape and non-tape reports so as not to cause confusion and more important not to mislead a large number of ppl and sites which rely on those daily finra reg sho reports!!!

i wish i could find it but 4kids9pets posted in detail that the bimonthly reports were meaningless bc the mm's have 3 days and at least a dozen ways to hide or minimize the true number of shorts
in those bimonthly reports

and yes i read the ceo of otcm's explanation of the process many days ago-an explanation which i choked on, given the above