Is This The End Of Naked Short Selling? I think it could be. Companies hurt by illegal naked shorting of their stock can now go after crooked or negligent broker/dealers that allow harmful manipulative trading that they could stop if they chose to. Since they can now be held liable for damages, it's a no brainer that naked shorting will dry up and blow away. Check out this article: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/end-naked-shor...00677.html