DD Support Board and Research Team

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First I will confess I haven't read a many of the posts here recently. So if this has been posted earlier, please understand.

"Different action that can appear to be naked shorting
Lamensdorf said the illegal naked shorting that Verb Technology Co. VERB, +69.65%, Genius Group Ltd. GNS, +45.37% and other microcap companies have been recently complaining about might include activity that isn’t illegal.

An investor looking to short a stock for which shares weren’t available to borrow, or for which the cost to borrow shares was too high, might enter into “swap transactions or sophisticated over-the-counter derivative transactions,” to bet against the stock,” he said.

This type of trader would be “pretty sophisticated,” Lamensdorf said. He added that brokers typically have account minimums ranging from $25 million to $50 million for investors making this type of trade. This would mean the trader was likely to be “a decent-sized family office or a fund, with decent liquidity,” he said."

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-naked-short-selling-has-suddenly-become-a-hot-topic-11674503568?mod=mw_more_headlines

And that explanation does leave a bit of room for questions.