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Re:Counterfeiting Stock – Explaining illegal naked shorting ... by woopwoop on Monday February 01, 2021 @04:50AM (#25987206)
Both naked shorting and regular shorting reduce the price of the stock. In the case of regular shorting, there is a sale offer that wouldn't have been and was, and in the case of naked shorting, there is a buy offer that would have been and wasn't.
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Re:Counterfeiting Stock – Explaining illegal naked shorting ... by myownpetard on Monday February 01, 2021 @03:25PM (#25993355)
True, but in the case of naked shorting there is now (for some period of time) another share being traded in addition to the shares issued by the company. In the case of regular shorting the float remains the same.
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