To those that may be new here, well-reasoned conjecture may often be construed as bashing even when it involves nothing negative at all. Fortunately, once presented with a sound arguement the bashers of "bashers" will usually reatreat. I will post the question I posed in my original post prior to having it derailed by paranoia bordering on mental illness:

I know Alan and 4kids take an interest in naked shorting as a real driver for the CTIX price action. Do we have any way to quantify how many undelivered naked shares exist? I know there are no good statistics but is there any way to form an estimate based on daily volume over the last couple years? Do either of you have any wild guesses as to how many naked shorted shares there are still unaccounted for? 5,000,000? 10,000,000? More? Do you think naked short sales each month exceed those of Aspire?