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in the second scenario, A would trade a share he doesn’t posses and B could trade the same share, no?



Are you concerned that B could sell his contractual right to have A deliver a share to someone else, so that when A is obliged to deliver a share that actually gets delivered to a third party? Why is that bad?




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