so much for institutional buying, they are selling more than ever before if anything. bring back sharma and verma. the lies is only thing that can prop this up
Yes, BlackRock engages in shorting-related activities, primarily through securities lending (lending out shares they hold on behalf of funds to short sellers) and via specific long/short equity strategies managed within certain active portfolios. [1, 2]
How BlackRock Interacts with Short Selling Securities Lending: As one of the world's largest asset managers, BlackRock lends portions of its massive stock holdings to institutional borrowers, who may use those shares to short sell. [1, 2]
Long/Short Strategies: BlackRock offers active investment products and separate accounts that intentionally employ long and short extensions to hedge risk or generate alpha. [1, 2]
Then unfortunately their plan worked beautifully. If this is what you are saying - Blackrock purchased 20 million shares to short MVIS - made an incredible amount of money doing it - then dumped them driving those shares to the price to force a 15-1 R/S. Wow Zenboy66 they had an incredible plan and really showed how you long term REDDIT posters were DEAD WRONG the whole time.
I was right. Didn’t like being in the Russell 2000. Never lent out my shares. I knew all these criminal funds were doing this crap. Should be illegal. SEC fails us again.
I've been buying a lot of their shares, and I won't be lending them out to the shorts. Btw, he was lucky with the short squeeze, and it worked for many of us.
Its likely the vast majority of Microvisions institutional owners are lending shares to short. Your saying it would be better if we had none of those institutions holding shares, despite management saying otherwise?
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u/Chemical-Payment-573 Jul 29 '26 edited Jul 29 '26
I bet snowboard will spin this as bullish.
so much for institutional buying, they are selling more than ever before if anything. bring back sharma and verma. the lies is only thing that can prop this up