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Originally posted by Psalty ↑

On Friday 10.8 of the 11.4 million MTS traded were new short sales as per ASX. That's 95% of trades.
Most, being 7.4 million were traded in the last two hours of trade during which period SP went up 2c to 119c.
To me they were shorting like crazy at the end of the day but the price was going up!
Thursday was a similar story but not as extreme, being 7.9 of 12.5 million, i.e. 63% of trades, 7.7 million in last two hours. Price dropped only ~1c in last two hours but bounced around more. (Most of Thursday's drop took place early in the session when volume was lower).

Why is so much of the shorting happening at end of the day, and why is price relatively strong then?
Is it because:
Shorts are from overseas and so only wake up and "play" then?
Or are shorts seeing seeing buying pressure near end of day so are trying to overwhelm it?

It will be very interesting to get the aggregate shorts in 4 days time to see how much of that trade was shorts closing, as it will give an indication of how confident/desperate they were.
Anyone that can offer some insight into this?
Were they shorting like crazy because the price was going up, because they know MTS is on a one-way ticket down?

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maybe it's just overall sentiment (AGAIN!) regarding WOW

MTS Price at posting: $1.17 Sentiment: None Disclosure: Not Held
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Last $3.82		Change -0.070(1.80%)		Mkt cap ! $4.213B

Open	High	Low	Value	Volume
$3.90	$3.90	$3.82	$1.713M	445.5K

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No.	Vol.	Price($)
23	43019	$3.82

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Price($)	Vol.	No.
$3.83	61278	34

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No.	Vol.	Price($)
13	38740	3.820
21	89469	3.810
22	76716	3.800
13	185741	3.790
9	28194	3.780

Price($)	Vol.	No.
3.830	51926	31
3.840	43790	23
3.850	44423	19
3.860	53642	11
3.870	98349	15

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