Gevo Inc (GEVO)

[AtlasSnuggled]

I dont care whether you are long, short, taller or better looking than me.

Read again the letter you posted, it mainly addresses the daily FINRA long/short data, which of course is nearly useless as an indication of shorting (it's bookkeeping) for the reasons listed in your letter (MM executing trades risk-less regarding their inventory). That daily data is accessible here and elsewhere http://www.shortvolume.com/

The Failure to Deliver data is more an indicator of how many shares were counterfeited (sold but not actually provided to buyer in due time...) in a certain period. If you are long & OK with that, what ever, but I am not. Its a fraudulent sale and it causes downward price pressure.
Available here http://failstodeliver.com/default2.aspx
and related to here http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/Trader.aspx?id=RegSHOThreshold

GEVO is hard to borrow because it "excessively" shorted, but that didn't stop crook shorts from selling non existant stock anyway, putting additional pressure on the stock and forcing extra dilution to raise the necessary funds.

Of course the actual FTD is probably far higher than reported too, because crooks use new FTD shares to settle old FTD shares, rolling the scam forward.


thanks for the opportunity to teach something.


RE: daily report useless for monitoring Short / Long activity;

"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."