RE:nobody is short selling your shares So... your theory is that the banks will loan people stocks out of their own holdings, take interest from this, let someone else sell them till they blast through bid walls, and return them worth less than they originally were ?
Hmm... so let's sit back for a moment and think about this.
Where is the financial incentive for the broker to do this? The borrow fee? Then no one would do it. Market volatility? No, that happens anyway.
Your shares can be borrowed if there is no sell order. Otherwise there would be no reason for anyone to short sell.
Having a sell order stops this, and if you don't intend to sell right now - set it for a high price tag. It costs you nothing . You won't be billed by your broker unless the transaction is completed, and if you set the ask high enough - why worry if it gets filled?
But it will pin it down and perhaps even expose a few naked short sellers in the brokerages.
gimmycash wrote: nobody can borrow your shares.banks and institutions only lend out their shares from their portfolios,and if they dont own any shares they borrow from another institution who is holding them in their portfolio.the guys shorting this own millions of shares and they are institutions,there might be some smallfry retail but very insignificant.nothing anybody can do except play the swings or sit back and wait til they are done.all this talk about setting high sell orders is moot.retail stocks are held in trust accounts,separate from the institutions holdings.the guys shorting this are banks,jitney,anon(maybe even sprott) and a couple of others.