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Wednesday, 07/20/2011 9:46:35 AM

Wednesday, July 20, 2011 9:46:35 AM

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Naked Short Selling VS FTDs
For those denying the daily FTDs reveal a possibility of a Naked Short in MDMN I attach a link (there are many) to a lengthy expose of the problem.
http://www.buyins.net/articles/christian.pdf
"It is not these temporary failures to deliver that cause the
concern; rather it is the prolonged failures to deliver caused by
manipulative naked short selling.
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The prolonged failures to
deliver resulting from naked short selling can reach such high
levels that the total amount of failures to deliver in a stock may
be greater than its total available public float of the security.81 " p1045

To be clear, I don't say a naked short is present in MDMN, just that the daily FTDs appear somewhat suspicious in that an inventory does not appear to be kept by the MMs engaged in making a market here. My understanding is that shorting used as a strategy to control price in a market is illegal, whereas with legitimate market making, the occasional occurance of an inadvertent short is permissible.
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