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Re: NagStocks post# 768

Saturday, 05/30/2020 10:08:42 AM

Saturday, May 30, 2020 10:08:42 AM

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Could be this: Naked shorting is the illegal practice of short selling shares that have not been affirmatively determined to exist. Ordinarily, traders must borrow a stock, or determine that it can be borrowed, before they sell it short. So naked shorting refers to short pressure on a stock that may be larger than the tradable shares in the market. Despite being made illegal after the 2008-09 financial crisis, naked shorting continues to happen because of loopholes in rules and discrepancies between paper and electronic trading systems.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/n/nakedshorting.asp