This is why shorting should be eliminated completely. At best, much more restrictions should be placed on the practice. It's too easy to manipulate, therefore I would say just eliminate it altogether!
They do this so much especially when it comes to popular retail stocks. It is a rigged casino. The FED even does it to the gold market. It will all go down in a heap of flames one day in all of our futures.
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