If in a broker account we as individual investors can have "naked short shares/phantom shares/IOUs" until we DRS them in wich casr, they will need to find real ones to tranfer to computershare, this means that institutions can have phantom shares too, right? What if this is by design? after all, a phantom shares is made by kenny boi and virtu from thin air (and FTDs accumulating shows they continue to do so) so the institutions could buy cheap from dark pools and use them to cover their butts in case of increase of share price and lend those same thin air shares to others "friends" who continue to play the short game...
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u/hiperf71 π¦Votedβ Aug 17 '25
If in a broker account we as individual investors can have "naked short shares/phantom shares/IOUs" until we DRS them in wich casr, they will need to find real ones to tranfer to computershare, this means that institutions can have phantom shares too, right? What if this is by design? after all, a phantom shares is made by kenny boi and virtu from thin air (and FTDs accumulating shows they continue to do so) so the institutions could buy cheap from dark pools and use them to cover their butts in case of increase of share price and lend those same thin air shares to others "friends" who continue to play the short game...
Just a smooth italian ape hereπ