Is the number of naked shares knowable or only speculative?
The SEC publishes the number of outstanding fail-to-delivers twice a month about half a month delayed. This for all practical purposes is the number of naked shorts (assuming you mean shares bought that never existed).
For the first half of Nov there were only 2 days with an open balance. The second (9951 shares) and the 10th (163123 shares) all were closed by the next trading day.
Some post here that nobody can track naked shorts, or they will say that they do not track illegal naked shorts. That is nonsense. The DTC certainly knows who owes them shares that they failed to deliver, and how many. Legal or not. And most all shares on US stocks are in the DTC.
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