and to follow up my previous post,
let's say the true OS is 500 million for arguments sake.
Let's also assume more than that is held in longs hands and restricted hands, say 600 million for the sake of argument, leaving a 100 million share oversold positon.
Whoever sold the extra 100 million into the market (there is a record of all this at the DTCC) will have to buy those shares and deliver, it may take them awhile to do it, but do it they must, they (the borkers/broker dealers/mm's) will have a couple weeks to deliver under the current rules, if they still don't come up with what they have to, they face revocation of their trading license for ALL of their business. So don't think they won't clean this up, they will not risk losing all their biz revenue for one stock.
These numbers are for example only, I personally think the oversold position is much higher, but you get the drift. The pps will skyrocket, the shorts lose whatever margin they had, and we get to sell to them for what we want ;)
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