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Microcap & Penny Stocks : Naked Shorting-Hedge Fund & Market Maker manipulation? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Stoctrash who wrote (3839)	9/22/2008 11:00:23 PM
From: rrufff	1 Recommendation Respond to of 5034

Read the addendum to the rules. Enough loopholes to effectively eliminate its effectiveness. The option MM exception is still there. So is the derivatives exception and "legitimate" equity MM action. (Does legit MM action mean months, years, days, hours to settle a trade in today's world of computer trading? Plenty of room for manipulative shorting there.) If you want a real laugh, you can see that there is language that they can't use exception if they "know" that customer is going to naked short. LOL Manipulation by shorties, hedgies and MM's while self-styled "crusading cyber sleupps" pretend it doesn't exist. And as far as your comment about naked shorting in OTC BB stocks, I'm guessing you think that's OK? Manipulation ok for small companies so long as you think it's a POS. What else is ok? Extort the CEO and call off the shorts if they give freebie shares to cover?

To: Stoctrash who wrote (3839)	9/22/2008 11:05:17 PM
From: Area51	4 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5034

<<Obviously, we've seen Naked Shorting of POS BB stocks but this is not new.>> I think the pig men are now flush with cash and moving up the food chain from their humble beginnings. The good thing is that they may start attacking some companies that somebody actually cares about (and Mr Cox may be awakened by some calls from some Senators). Hedge funds have $4 Trillion dollars with which to bet against the US economy. That is a lot of money and it makes a real impact when they trade. They used to keep their nefarious activities confined to the OTC but, simply, they are too large now to keep messing with the little guys. www1.investorvillage.com