Running discussion on SP, page-3363

"US investor could have provided the shares to a broker at a fee"

Could have - yes.

"in turn shorting occurred."

No.

Shorting (significant short selling) did not occur on the 1st and 2nd of May.

Unless we can't trust the ASX short sales reports. It would be important to know if we could not trust them, but it is a mistake in my opinion for retail shareholders to assume they can't trust ASX short sales reports without evidence or an explanation as to how those reports could be wrong.

In my opinion, retail shareholders empower themselves by knowing where they don't know something knowable and learning about it (and forums can help with learning about it), not just assuming it is out of their control now and forever and they have to accept that they must remain at a permanent disadvantage.