Please take a minute to think about what you say. If they are...

Please take a minute to think about what you say. If they are buying they take a share off the market. loan the right to sell that share to a shorter to sell as a short. One share bought one share sold Net change in shares on market ZERO. No impact on shares outstanding. The only people who get all worked up about shorters are people that do not get what it does. People who don't know how to work out what is causing stock prices to change.

Do you have any of your shares in a margin account? Even if you do not have any Margine loans if funds are in a margin account your broker can loan them to shorters and make money. they can do many other things as well to make money off of you. You should look care fully many brokers just put shares in Margine accounts without asking. It cost you nothing and makes shares available to them

Most discount brokers put all your funds in a margin account. They cannot do this without your permission. However if when you open your account they put in small print on page 5 that you are opening a margin account they can borrow your assets without telling you and do many thing with your shares including loaning them to shorters.