Today , InvestorTurf officially accuses the DTCC, DTC, and NSCC of orchestrating the biggest fraud in stock market history, and we demand action from the Trump administration.
InvestorTurf accuses the market-plumbing complex—DTCC and its two key arms, DTC and NSCC—of enabling the large-scale manufacture and concealment of “counterfeit” shares created through naked short selling. The DTCC is the broker-dealer-owned holding company, with DTC acting as the depository that holds almost all certificates in its nominee name and keeps member and customer sub-accounts as electronic entries, while NSCC is the central clearer that guarantees settlement and runs the stock-borrow program and Continuous Net Settlement (CNS). This structure lets trades “settle” even when the seller never delivers a real, borrowed share, so the buyer is credited with what call counterfeit share, yet the system treats it as if it were genuine.
NSCC’s stock-borrow and CNS netting process allows the same pool of real shares to be booked across multiple customer accounts at different brokers, inflating the effective float. NSCC guarantees trades and cures fails-to-deliver by borrowing from brokers’ net surpluses at DTC; because only net differences move, the lending broker doesn’t remove specific shares from any named customer, but the borrowing broker credits specific customers—so identical shares appear in more than one account. As long as members keep settling only their net obligations, the system never reconciles to the issuer’s true share count. This “CNS” layer hides “billions” of such counterfeit shares from Regulation SHO, with issuer-level CNS totals available only if DTC is successfully subpoenaed—and even the SEC does not routinely receive those tallies.
DTC is burying historic fails and providing mechanisms that let positions evade buy-ins and clocks. There is a case where roughly 400 million naked shorted shares that “should” have been bought in after a major player’s collapse were instead absorbed into DTC’s system and effectively “grandfathered” into legitimacy, permanently diluting issuers while no longer appearing as fails. The DTC runs or condones programs (described as RECATS) that alert members when positions are about to become fails so they can be shipped offshore or matched elsewhere and then returned with clocks reset—repeating as needed to keep positions naked and out of sight. When public and political pressure forced closure of the formal “grandfather” loophole in 2007, DTC and brokers simply migrated large blocks out of DTC to ex-clearing, where the same economic exposure persists but falls outside what regulators track.
Finally, this plumbing doesn’t just tolerate abuse but powers it at scale: by treating borrowed-from-DTC credits as legitimate and netting away gross imbalances, NSCC and DTC provide a standing reservoir of synthetic supply—ten to twenty times larger than the publicly visible fails in targeted names—that can be drawn on to overwhelm buy pressure, depress prices, and even push companies toward distress, all while appearing settled and compliant on the surface. This reserve of “strategic fails” gets created and maintained alongside profitable stock-lending and one-day “borrows,” and “friends” at the DTC and major clearinghouses” are part of a repeatable playbook used during coordinated short campaigns.
It was 4 years ago I did my first Chatter with @joshhamilton (June 15, 2021), about 18 months after "Naked, Short and Greedy" was published.
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