House Positions for C:TGOD from 20190114 to 20190114

House	Bought	$Val	Ave	Sold	$Val	Ave	Net	$Net
7 TD Sec	2,537,072	7,683,280	3.028	1,722,416	5,211,608	3.026	814,656	-2,471,672
65 Goldman	151,837	461,481	3.039	12,460	37,684	3.024	139,377	-423,797
2 RBC	488,644	1,485,845	3.041	391,788	1,188,360	3.033	96,856	-297,485
80 National Bank	118,050	361,779	3.065	59,043	179,610	3.042	59,007	-182,169
85 Scotia	506,130	1,542,050	3.047	454,945	1,382,567	3.039	51,185	-159,483
88 Credential	69,740	212,841	3.052	27,275	82,705	3.032	42,465	-130,136
89 Raymond James	127,108	384,708	3.027	86,240	260,261	3.018	40,868	-124,447
22 Fidelity	42,958	130,125	3.029	11,946	35,935	3.008	31,012	-94,190
19 Desjardins	99,819	304,345	3.049	75,045	226,304	3.016	24,774	-78,041
99 Jitney	127,400	385,121	3.023	113,500	344,208	3.033	13,900	-40,913
33 Canaccord	23,080	70,407	3.051	17,850	54,732	3.066	5,230	-15,675
124 Questrade	244,585	745,452	3.048	241,996	728,493	3.01	2,589	-16,959
56 Edward Jones	2,000	6,140	3.07	0			2,000	-6,140
15 UBS	300	913	3.043	0			300	-913
62 Haywood	3,200	9,824	3.07	4,100	12,710	3.10	-900	2,886
83 Mackie	0			1,000	3,060	3.06	-1,000	3,060
28 BBS	43,500	132,550	3.047	45,300	138,691	3.062	-1,800	6,141
57 Interactive	150	465	3.10	2,150	6,525	3.035	-2,000	6,060
68 Leede	0			3,000	9,300	3.10	-3,000	9,300
14 ITG	3,900	11,820	3.031	8,890	26,581	2.99	-4,990	14,761
76 Industrial Alliance	0			15,000	45,427	3.028	-15,000	45,427
143 Pershing	18,731	56,476	3.015	34,501	103,511	3.00	-15,770	47,035
72 Credit Suisse	0			16,900	51,633	3.055	-16,900	51,633
74 GMP	0			18,975	56,925	3.00	-18,975	56,925
48 Laurentian	0			20,300	62,300	3.069	-20,300	62,300
1 Anonymous	1,058,223	3,213,028	3.036	1,097,997	3,335,763	3.038	-39,774	122,735
5 Penson	238,520	723,542	3.033	282,500	858,194	3.038	-43,980	134,652
59 PI	11,000	33,770	3.07	59,000	177,700	3.012	-48,000	143,930
9 BMO Nesbitt	253,553	770,973	3.041	391,518	1,192,371	3.046	-137,965	421,398
53 Morgan Stanley	7,754	23,236	2.997	178,320	538,803	3.022	-170,566	515,567
13 Instinet	296,200	901,665	3.044	475,550	1,447,664	3.044	-179,350	545,999
39 Merrill Lynch	260,453	790,559	3.035	547,743	1,657,371	3.026	-287,290	866,812
79 CIBC	1,795,801	5,450,735	3.035	2,112,460	6,436,134	3.047	-316,659	985,399
TOTAL	8,529,708	25,893,130	3.036	8,529,708	25,893,130	3.036	0	0

How to Prevent your Shares Holdings from being Shorted

Q:Why does short selling reduce share prices?

A:To short-sell a share speculators have to borrow the shares in the first place. Once they have done this they need to sell them in the market, and if this is done en-masse it can push the share price of a company down in the short term as there are more sellers than buyers in the market. Hedge funds specialising in short selling may also cause panic in the market by selling lots of shares in a company as other shareholders become worried about the share price plunge. Some companies will blame short sellers for dramatic declines in their stock price. The practice is so controversial that bans on short selling are not unknown and during the last credit crisis in 2008, traders were not allowed to short-sell certain banks and financial institutions.

Most borrowers and lenders of shares are institutions, brokers, etc. Mere mortals can borrow indirectly by using Spread Bets or Contracts for Difference. If you go short, you are effectively borrowing shares to sell for money; if you go long, you are effectively borrowing money to buy shares. Depending on the balance between shorts and longs, the company offering these products may choose to cover the risk by borrowing real shares to sell or by investing money to buy real shares.

Q:What can you do to prevent your shares holdings from being shorted?

A:Now what can the average personal investor do to stop their own shares being shorted, as believe me your own broker, if approached, WILL sell your own shares that they hold on your behalf as a nominee account.

There are two things you can do, the first is to certificate them but this is not obviously to everyone’s advantage but the alternative solution is simple. All you do is to phone your broker and put an order in saying that you wish to place your shares for sale at, for arguments sake, double today’s price. As they are ‘on order’ they cannot be lent out by your broker and in turn you are reducing the amount of ‘free shares’ out there that can be used for shorting purposes. And don’t forget to move your limit order up when the price starts to recover, then, that way your shares can’t be shorted – not much but helps :D.

Although an individual personal investor will not normally have enough shares to halt a concerted shorting attack, if a large number of holders did this it would reduce the overall amount of shares that they could get their hands on.

In my opinion well worth doing if not only for the knowledge that your own shares cannot and will not be used in a short attack against the very share that you own.

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