Yesterday, with the share price only dropping slightly, with all shares sold in the share market '65% were short sold', there comes a point when the shorters have over-done it, have fun buying back the outstanding stock! We can debate fundamentals all we like, but the real cause in SP manipulation is shown below.
| Date | Gross shorts 1 | Issued capital | % Capital shorted 2 | Trade volume 3 | Shorts as % of volume 4 |
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| 1 | Tue 30th Oct, 2018 | 11,403,592 | 2,937,428,336 | 0.38% | 17,668,079 | 64.54% |
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| 2 | Mon 29th Oct, 2018 | 11,030,260 | 2,937,428,336 | 0.37% | 30,264,226 | 36.45% |
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| 3 | Fri 26th Oct, 2018 | 29,964,356 | 2,937,428,336 | 1.02% | 71,674,152 | 41.81% |
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| 4 | Thu 25th Oct, 2018 | 34,996,481 | 2,937,428,336 | 1.19% | 97,094,520 | 36.04% |
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| 5 | Wed 24th Oct, 2018 | 10,957,570 | 2,937,428,336 | 0.37% | 18,844,271 | 58.15% |
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| 6 | Tue 23rd Oct, 2018 | 7,723,422 | 2,937,428,336 | 0.26% | 15,370,669 | 50.25% |
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| 7 | Mon 22nd Oct, 2018 | 5,944,359 | 2,937,428,336 | 0.20% | 9,769,582 | 60.85% |
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| 8 | Fri 19th Oct, 2018 | 3,552,694 | 2,937,428,336 | 0.12% | 9,674,811 | 36.72% |
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