I believe it should be cut out completely. This isn't Vegas and it harms companies and inturn harms legit investors.
People talk about being here and investing long term in a company they feel good about. That is generally BS in todays market, because those that generally invest that way get screwed.
It's time to bring the markets back to the basics and change it back from being the gambling Casino it is today.
I tell you what. Let the MM's play by the same rules the companies are supposed to play by and be fully reporting daily on short positions.
Let every short position within every company be posted on the website of the market in which that stock is traded daily.
Then the average investor will have the needed info to do their proper DD just the same as they do by looking up the current O/S of a company.
I also believe all companies should have to report their O/S and any changes to their O/S to the public immediately when those changes occur, no matter if they are a reporting company or not. The investor shouldn't have to go to the TA to get this type of info.
These basic requirement and changes alone would put an end to most of the games played by the people within the markets.
Put everything out in the open as it should be.
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"Nonsense. When stocks become overbought, or when a company screws up, people short the stocks in question. That's not "manipulation". It's "good sense". The idea is to "make money".
Why not play both sides of the market, as circumstances dictate?"
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