And when have they ever lost? Every company thinks they will be the one that busts the evil naked shorters on Wall St once and for all. This was all a lovely front so this management team could fabricate a "strategic" quiet period.
Even if there were some naked shorts - we traded in teens and twenties for multiple years and why wouldn’t they systematically cover during that period? Hundreds of millions of shares exchanged hands during that time.
Why would “naked” shorts keep their positions open for over 5 years when they have had fantastic opportunity to cover for what might be well over 1000% profit when we were trading in teens and twenty cent range for multiple years.