everyone on hotcopper seems to think shorters are some rare...

everyone on hotcopper seems to think shorters are some rare breed that are always right!! What often happens, is they have enough money ( and often influence with news organisations) behind them to actually move the shares, and/or the holders are more nervous than them.

Been plenty instances where a majority of entities shorting a stock have lost: more recent low profile shorting failures would be Harvey Norman, Metcash nd Silex who showed up on most shorted list for months! Been a few other heavily shorted ones where takeover offers have cost shorters plenty also.