of course there are records Masta. You have to pick one broker and sue the piss out of them based upon fraud.
You pick TDAmeritrade.
You sue them based upon the number of shares they sold to TDA clients. You ask them how so many shares were sold.
TDA has records of every trade. My buy order was filled from someone...somewhere selling BCIT shares. A matched transaction.
Do you think TDA is going to get stuck with a huge short position because some turkey broker just kept selling and selling and selling shares?
By your statement, I could destroy major brokerages and run them out of business. Brokerages keep track of that info to protect their azzes. You have to sue them to obtain that information.
...are created in this ex-clearing market
ex-clearing is a contract where a selling broker-dealer has a contract in writing guaranteeing delivery from the seller.
That's how Jeffries was exposed for dumping 111 Billion shares of CMKX for John Edwards and another 2.4 billion shares of PCBM for Vince LoCastro. There is always an electronic log of shares.
Too many people do not understand how ex-clearing contracts are set up.
Leave it to those most capable, I am sure a securities lawyer knows about anything any message board poster can suggest...and has ALL the information at HAND.
We are blind comparably...so any discussion we have is very limited by our lack of information.
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