There'd be no problem if there were such a thing as honest broker-deakers, but there's little to no evidence of that based on months of bid whacking and phony ask sizes. And then they mount the occasional bear raid to cover their naked shorts and appease outside collaborators. The market-maker business model contains within it an inherent conflict of interest and, in the absence of strict oversight, they do what many children will do, steal from the cookie jar while mommy's not looking. In this case, those cookies add up to many millions of dollars ripped off from investors with impunity.