Ocata Therapeutics Inc fka OCAT

[rocky301]

It is nothing new if you put weight in FINRA numbers, I don't. Below are a few examples from last year.. Below examples are some questions you need to ask yourself before understanding those numbers.

50% aggregate shorting today.
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33%
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FINRA: Accurate reporting?

One of the primary functions of broker-dealers is to act as intermediaries for investors that are buying or selling stock. Often, to carry out that function, broker-dealers will handle such investor orders on a riskless principal basis. A riskless sale is one in which a broker-dealer, after having received an order to sell a security, sells the security as principal, at the same price, to satisfy that order. Regulations require broker-dealers to mark their proprietary riskless sell order as short if they don't own the security, even if the customer order to sell the security is long. Since broker-dealers generally don’t maintain a position, a significant number of such riskless sales are reported as short, even though the customer is selling long, and the broker-dealer intends to and will buy the shares from the long selling customer immediately after the proprietary riskless short sale takes place. Typically, the broker-dealer's position is short for considerably less than one second.

Accordingly, the marking of sell orders as short by market makers, block positioners, and broker-dealers effecting riskless principal transactions may not always accurately reflect what has transpired, and publishing data derived from these transactions may not increase market transparency and bolster investor confidence. FINRA appears to acknowledge these constraints by noting in the filing that
"information relating to market maker [or supplemental liquidity provider] status is not currently included in the trade report submission; thus, FINRA currently is unable to separately identify the trades of equity market makers [and supplemental liquidity providers] in the monthly short sale transaction file