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https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/13cbtpj/cmon_is_this_short_volume_percentage_real_lowest/
>https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/shortexempt.asp
>When a Trade Can be Marked "Short Exempt"
>A trade may be labeled "short exempt" and executed at a price lower than the national best price if one of the following applies:
I think they're doing it for one or both of these:
1.
>The short-sale order is being made by a market maker in order to resolve an odd-lot position.
Because they're executing higher-than-usual high frequency trading, because HFT tends to do that
https://www.sec.gov/marketstructure/research/hft_lit_review_march_2014.pdf
>O’Hara, Yao and Ye (2012) measure the influence of HFT on odd-lot trading. They find that 20-25% of trades initiated by HFTs are odd lots, and that trades initiated by HFTs are more likely to be odd lots than trades initiated by non-HFTs
2.
>The short-sale is made in connection to a lay-off sale or over-allotment.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/o/overallotment.asp
>The underwriters of such an offering may elect to exercise the overallotment option when demand for shares is high and shares are trading above the offering price.
Source: I haven't eaten yet.

>>54760399
sounds pretty based to me

https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/10/investing/svb-bank/index.html
>bailout

>>53037951
>investment
It's not an investment. It's entertainment, using money that would have otherwise gone to other things to entertain.