The stock market has morphed in to a playground for Big Money, brokers, insiders and marketmakers.
There isn't much of a level playing field left for retail investors to be shareholders in such a stacked deck game that the stockmarkets have become.
How fair are the brokers being with the rightful shareholders of shorted stocks.
|Do they even know that their broker lent their shares out to the Big Money marketmakers to work against the upside of their potential appreciation and the very reason for these markets to exist which is as a funding source for companies of potential that are having their upside potential killed before they even have a chance because of the marketmakers ganging up on them to drive their shareprices down in a death spiral for the potential of good companies.
Bankers and brokers have created confusing and carefully crafted investment vehicles that are difficult to understand, even for law and accounting skilled who's comments just add to the confusion.
I am pushing for outlawing short sales and naked short sales of securities that the perpetrators do not own. They downplay it by saying that they are borrowing your shares when what they are doing is stealing the potential of those shares from the rightful owners and it works most of the time to put value in their pockets, both shortsellers and brokers and it kills the chance of success for decent companies that are vulnerable and can do everything right to build shareholder's confidence until the crooks take an interest in their game and enter with intentions of stacking the deck and running away with the pot of finances by walking the value of those shares down because they have a bigger pool of money and a group of likeminded perpetrators to scare out good retail investors.
The net result is that small retail investors lose their investment and don't want to invest anymore because they know if this consortium inflicts their investment with this type of investment vehicle, that they will lose their capital investment with the exception of the very rare Redditt/Gamestop Event where small investors got themselves lined up to turn the tables in a rare event that punished brokers, brokerages and short investors as they got squeezed in a turnaround event that barely ever happens compared to the amount of small retail investors that get out-huckstered from their hard earned investments.
To me, short selling and naked short selling is stealing and detrimental to the future of the very valuable stock market as a last resort of financing for a lot of new companies and their management.
The pen is mightier than the sword and all of those voters that are in favour of ejecting this behavior from the stockmarkets need to put it in writing and send it to your political representatives and a copy to the Securites Commissions that govern your stock markets.
I don't want to invest in any investment where I know that those on the bid are walking my shareprice down and telling a story of doom and gloom for the future of my investment that invariably comes true because retail investors are mostly disconnected and don't have the risk capital to take on the short sellers.
glta and dyodd