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kmuirhead

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08/02/24

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Originally posted by gimo211: ↑

Hi kmuirhead,

"Why on earth would an index fund commission a third party to do the short selling so the third party could borrow shares and sell these shares to the index fund?"
I think the following logic underlies this:
An index fund must reflect the inclusion of STX in an index (e.g. ASX 200) in proportionately in a certain time.
Therefore, the fundmust acquire a correspondingly large quantity of STX shares. The index fundtherefore creates - from its point of view - an “artificial” and large demand.
If the index fund were to buy the required Strike shares on the market, this would lead to a significant increase in the share price.
However,an index fund wants to avoid this, as a fall in the share price after coveringits own requirements would have a direct negative impact on the fund value.
Shortselling therefore provides the necessary liquidity: the index fund can coverthe necessary demand immediately - without moving the share price.

That is theanswer to your question...

I expect that we will see an enormously high volume tomorrow in the closing auction andon Friday an ASIC report on an equally high short selling volume.

Let's see...

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Thank you very much gimo. It all makes sense now.
STX Price at posting: 43.0¢ Sentiment: None Disclosure: Held
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Last 18.5¢		Change 0.015(8.82%)		Mkt cap ! $501.4M

Open	High	Low	Value	Volume
17.0¢	18.5¢	17.0¢	$1.244M	7.049M

Buyers (Bids)

No.	Vol.	Price($)
41	908992	18.0¢

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Price($)	Vol.	No.
18.5¢	831340	27

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No.	Vol.	Price($)
28	572117	0.180
27	1777261	0.175
43	2436252	0.170
34	2517320	0.165
43	1784952	0.160

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0.185	726463	23
0.190	1215296	8
0.195	1142755	5
0.200	557914	11
0.205	545147	6

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