Thanks. I'm not that concerned about the mechanics. NW has such a low price and tiny amount in total $ worth of stock traded daily that in theory it could be easy to manipulate. I mean on slow trading days even say .5M extra shares sold for some days could keep the price moving down while needing only a tiny $ amount for a mid-size hedge fund. WRT naked shorting by private contract also, while constrained by collateral amounts and counter-party appitite for risk, a company with $400M of other assets could short 20M shares of NW and not get a margin call even if it ran over $1, for example, under a specialized contract for an off-market put agreement, assuming there is a counter party interested in selling them that put. But as far as shorting is concerned, obviously at the current price the returns are very diminished and I can only guess, but I seriously doubt there are any huge short positions. If, post MAA approval the pps runs to $1-2 we could see some big pocketed shorts more motivated to profit by shorting the pps and crushing it just by heavy volume shorting after longs have bid the price up. I have no idea how bold or aggressive any shorts would be against the backgrop of MAA approval when there might be some positive deal or even BO offer in the wings after approval is finally secured. I guess anybody willing to do that would have to have some sources of intel to tell them that there is no deal pending that could blow their short sky high.
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