Alpine decision is tomorrow I believe,
they obviously don't have the funds to stay liquid, so that means their clients (Kramers) don't have enough either.
So the most likely outcome is Finra gets their wish tomorrow and Alpine goes belly up, good riddance to bad rubbish.
They(alpine) have Errors and Omissions insurance, to pay up most of their short problem, if not then they go BK. Assuming they go BK, the DTCC inherits the problem, all of these market participants are connected to the DTCC, so if they have an outstanding short that needs covering the DTCC can just take what they have in their accounts, and the bill has to get paid, period. If there isn't enough to cover the bill then the DTCC initiates the buy-in. As I said, we all will know it by the 'forced' volume, have seen it before and made nice $$$$ during the covering. Today looks like retail loading up. What I have seen in the past is steady volume with closing prices at or near the high of the day, and then it continues the next day and the next day etc until the short gets bought in, there is a specific timeline that a market maker explained to me how this works, but basically the gist of it is watch for volume to continue, and then it will drop off then we'll know that most of the short is covered, it can take awhile.....at any time the covering can stop, so we won't really know until after it is done, so trade accordingly, imo.
Plan your trades, and trade your plan is the best I can offer and don't be surprised if it goes up a lot higher than where it is, was in one in recent past went from .011 to .93, another went 1$ to 20$, before they crashed, you never know where things top out, so it's hard to tell and we don't have access to the info that the DTCC has, nor can we get it......
$DBMM
Bullish