Originally Posted by
KW
Shorting - you "borrow" the shares from a super fund, then sell them on market. With sufficient volume you can independently drive the price down, at which point you buy them back and "return" them. Then you repeat the play. This can go on forever, at least until a buyer other than the shorter steps in to buy up the shares and pushing the price higher, ending the shorting party. Selling "borrowed" shares does not require a SSH notice as the owner hasnt sold them, and the buyer hasnt kept them. Who's doing it? Who knows. Maybe a dairy company with deep pockets who is more than a little pissed off with A2 right now, and wants to restrict their access to future capital?