RE:RE:RE:Diluting Trillion shares Yes, a million increase in the short position is peanuts. There are posters on stockhouse with close to that number of shares. There are nearly 400 million outstanding. That position may actually even be a hedge fund arb position versus the bond. Lots of guys do pair trades to pick up income and reduce risk. The trade is buy $370,000 worth of bonds, and short 1000000 shares @ 0.37. So net they are zero on TCF. If the coupon on the bonds covers the short fee on the stock, they pocket the difference. If TCF hits the motherlode, the stock and the bond both takeoff. If they go bankrupt, bond holders rank ahead of equity so they might get something out of it. Definitely not my cup of tea, but some arb trader might do it. Then there are chowder heads that are convinced the warrants will outperform the stock. They might buy a million warrants at 18 cents, and short a million shares at 37 and pocket the 19 cents difference. Sounds great until the warrants expire or have to be exercised at 50 cents and now they are out of pocket the 18 for the warrant plus the 50 exercise = 68 cents. And the short on the stock is way underwater. Ooops. Or it could be just pure speculation the short will make money. I say go for it. I dare you.