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Re:Dole Food Had Too Many Shares by llccbb on Friday February 17, 2017 @01:51PM (#13670680)
The problem with naked short selling is the ability for rampant, cheap, and extremely profitable manipulation to cause "artificial" price-drops. There is basically no penalty for failure-to-delivers and companies share price can be gutted while no real shares have been traded.
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Re:Dole Food Had Too Many Shares by xapata on Sunday February 19, 2017 @12:32AM (#13678337)
Fraud is illegal. If you try that often or too big, you'll get caught.
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