Expert Financial Analysis and Reporting

I am often asked how I can hypothesize that there may be such an unbelievably large number of counterfeit shares of NWBO that have been created through illegal naked shorting? A look at the GameStop short squeeze gives a real world example suggesting that the hedge fund Melvin Capital could have been short the equivalent […]

Opinion on Stock The recent sharp price decline has not been attributable to any change in perceived or actual fundamentals of Cryoport. (See the appendix of this report for a discussion on price behavior over the last month.) I have stated repeatedly that Cryoport has one of the best business models that I have seen […]

Upfront Caveat When I launched my research on stock manipulation and the prominent role played by illegal naked shorting, I believed that I had a fair understanding of the subject and could knock out comprehensive research in just a few blogs. However, as I dug in I was taken aback at how complex and widespread […]

Investment Overview Selling something you don’t own seems a pretty alien concept to me. I struggle to find any business models for which this is a key strategy. The exception is shorting of stocks and other securities which is a huge business on Wall Street that is carried on by many hedge funds and aided […]

You Really Don’t Own the Shares that Appear in Your Brokerage Account; They Belong to Cede Most investors when they buy a publicly traded stock believe that they own a part of some company. They think that somewhere there is a stock certificate or some indication of ownership that has their name on it, but […]

Acronyms Used Frequently in This Report DTCC: The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) provides clearing and settlement services to the US financial markets that handle the exchange of nearly all securities and cash on behalf of buyers and sellers. It is also a central securities depository providing central custody of almost all US securities. […]

Overview In previous blogs I traced the history of stock trading from the 1960s when stock certificates and cash were physically exchanged to settle trades to the paper free, totally electronic system that exists today. Instead of owning stock certificates, we now own digital entries located somewhere in the vaults of the inscrutable Depository Trust […]

Introduction  This is the fifth blog in the series that I am writing to describe how illegal naked shorting is used broadly and massively to manipulate the stock prices of (primarily small) companies. I have been studying illegal naked shorting for nearly five years and I have found it to be incredibly complex and disturbingly […]

Introduction I worked on Wall Street as an analyst for nearly 40 years and was involved in the stock market on a day to day basis. Throughout this time, I was focused on fundamental developments that would give an insight into the potential for a company to grow its sales and profits and then trying […]

Clearing and Settling of Stock Trades Most of us when we enter a buy or sell order for a stock give almost no thought to how key aspects of the trade are carried out. We have great confidence that the trade will be handled in accordance with our instructions and accurately reflected in our brokerage […]