About NakedShortStop
Markets function best when investors have confidence that they are fair, transparent, and governed by consistent rules. When that confidence is questioned, careful examination of the evidence serves both investors and the integrity of the marketplace itself.
NakedShortStop was created to organize, examine, and document publicly available information relating to significant market structure events. Our objective is not to promote predetermined conclusions, but to help readers understand what the public record shows, what it does not show, and where greater transparency would improve independent verification.
Why We Exist
For years, concerns about abusive short selling were often dismissed with a familiar explanation: companies failed because of poor management, weak business models, or changing market conditions. Those factors undoubtedly explain many corporate failures. But they do not explain every case.
As litigation, regulatory proposals, academic research, market data, and public disclosures have accumulated, it has become increasingly clear that some investors were asking legitimate questions that deserved careful examination rather than dismissal.
NakedShortStop™ was created because we believe those questions deserve to be examined through evidence rather than assumption.
The Human Cost
Behind every public company are people.
Entrepreneurs who devoted years to building businesses.
Employees whose livelihoods depend on those businesses.
Families whose savings are invested in them.
Communities affected when companies struggle or disappear.
Market integrity is not an abstract concept. When confidence in fair and transparent markets is weakened, the consequences extend well beyond stock prices. It can affect livelihoods, retirement savings, access to capital, employment, innovation, and public confidence in the fairness of financial markets.
Our Purpose
NakedShortStop™ exists because every investor deserves access to organized evidence, primary sources, and transparent reporting so they can draw informed conclusions for themselves.
Our work focuses on organizing publicly available information relating to:
- Market structure
- Naked short selling
- Failures to deliver
- Off-exchange trading
- Securities lending
- Market-maker exemptions
- Regulatory actions
- Corporate litigation
- Trading halts
- Shareholder transparency
Our reports distinguish carefully between:
- Established facts
- Regulatory findings
- Court records
- Public statements
- Allegations
- Analysis
- Questions that remain unresolved
Our Editorial Principles
We believe:
- Evidence should come before opinion.
- Primary sources should be used whenever possible.
- Allegations should never be presented as established facts.
- Evidence that challenges a preferred interpretation should never be ignored.
- Transparency requires acknowledging uncertainty where uncertainty exists.
- Reports should be updated when new evidence materially changes the record.
Our Commitment
NakedShortStop™ does not ask readers to accept our conclusions.
We ask readers to examine the evidence.
Whether a report confirms, challenges, or complicates prevailing assumptions, our commitment remains the same: to organize complex information into a clear, transparent public record that allows readers to reach informed conclusions based on the available evidence.