Tronox Inc. (TROX)

[newtechinvestor]

"In this case the trade is essentially broken into two parts, the member firm gets your sell order, sells the stock (short) to the market then buys the stock from you. You don't realize the difference and the trade was essentially a long holder selling stock. But, this is reported as a short sale because of the way the member firm handled it.

Periodically the member firms report their short interest in each particular stock. This reported short interest is actually the number of shares short on that particular date. This number includes both naked short sales and short sales upon which shares have been secured."

Considering above premises, how do you know there is a real "seller" other than the Market Maker constructing a "riskless transaction"? For the sake of argument, let's say no real short/naked short occurred with Tronox shares. The fact that these what appears heavy shorting appears every day gives appearances of artificially weak demand of Tronox shares in spite of strong fundamental case. That leads me to believe Market Makers are heavily manipulating the stock.