Thanks for your reply Terry but please...no one fully understands this space so let's not state such. I will acknowledge that you know the space well, and trust me I know the space well too.
To continue our discussion here though, it does not matter if the failures on SRGE are coming from a short sale or a long sale. They are all one in the same at this point because the same air shares are being circulated since SRGE hit the cellar price of 0.0001 (maybe you can explain to the forum what "cellar" is). On this basis, delivery of shares upon purchase and clearance of monies have equal problems. This is the fun part of it all. ~.~
So, let's look at what a long sale is. I bought "air shares" of SRGE from NITE, held it and sold it for a profit to ETRF. The problem already starts because I bought air shares from NITE then sold the air shares to ETRF. My long sale is a result of another's naked short sale.
Let's look at what a regular short sale is. I borrow from ETRF shares of SRGE that don't exist. I come to the IHub forum and tell a bunch of lies hoping for the stock to tank and then I cover (or buy in) my position.
Let's look at what NSS is. I am an off-shore hedge fund who hired an MM like NITE to naked sell (short) billions of shares of unassuming pink issuers like SRGE. I don't borrow shares like the regular short guy(he is just a retail shrimp). I am the dude responsible for creating all these air shares on SRGE. I do this because I am betting on SRGE to go back to 0,0001 where there is no bid and I win--I mean, who frickin wins when the bid and ask are 0,0001. Crap, I am going to wait until someone comes in at 0,0002 on the bid then I am ensure I can make 100%, haha!!! I don't ever have to cover. I am a criminal.
Whether we have fails from long sales or short sales, the fact remains that there is a huge circulation of phantom shares created by the hedgies using NITE and NITE using its lackeys. At the end, it is the Hedge Funds that will be footing the bill for billions and billions of shares of long and short sale on SRGE.
But you know...I am crazy and imagining things so all should ignore me.