Signs a stock is targeted for short & distort manipulation

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I do not think anyone can answer this. It resembles a "big boys club" or "insiders" of DTCC or other clearing agents that purposely fail to report there naked short trades or looks the other way while someone else does.

YOu will tend to know there is a large naked short position when you see people spending enormous amounts of time trying to discredit the company. Trying to find false stories innuendoes etc. all pointing to "think twice about buying or holding this stock".

Here is a great site to do some reading on how bad the abuse is: http://www.deepcapture.com/the-story-of-deep-capture-by-mark-mitchell/

Here is a video where a well known Short Seller (some association to the Streetsweeper) admits how he and others do this short and distort: http://www.wimp.com/manipulatingmarket/

Watch the body language of the interviewer when Jim says "it's legal"! Note how Jim says "feed some bozo reporter some false news for them to write on the company. Or call a bunch of traders to start false rummers than buy some 'puts" that are signs that someone thinks the market is going to go down,.