naked shorting

South Korea extended its short-selling ban on Thursday in an attempt to crack down on illegal “naked shorting” practices. What Happened: South Korea announced it would extend its ban on short selling to the first quarter of 2025, per Fortune. “The ban on short selling will be...

At 9:12 a.m. on Wednesday, Money Flow Mel (@MelStone31) posted an image to Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) indicating institutions traded large blocks of the United States Oil ETF (NYSE: USO) over a dark pool exchange. The Trades: At 8:07:56 a.m. an institution traded 111,000 shares of USO at $81.16...

AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc (NYSE: AMC) gapped up Tuesday morning after printing a second-quarter earnings beat, but slammed into resistance at the 21-day exponential moving average and sold off over 8%. The Reddit darling has squeezed shorts twice already this year but that didn’t...

Naked shorting is the illegal practice of short-selling shares that have not been affirmatively determined to exist. A naked short means a trader believes the future value of the stock will be worth so much less than its current value that they ask a broker to lend them artificial shares to further...