Thank you MacDaddy ... there is no disclosure and no transparency on short selling. No One knows for sure.
Wrong MAcDaddy ... the clearing house long position.
Say xzcf clearing house has so many brokers: DLJ - Long 100,000 DHY - Long 100,000 NI - Long 100,000 LJ)O - Long 100,000 etc.
I have 400,000 long position I can short. As I short sell to others the long position will increase.
But I do not have a problem with shorting like in the Commodities market. There you have to put up capitl as collateral. Nothing wrong with that ... just hte borrowing of another's property.
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