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Originally posted by Suw
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See below how sometimes Shorters can create panic and also frustration among genuine retail investors. The day SP bounces back or KDR goes into trading halt because of our 2nd OT partner announcement, shorters will get burnt.
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Column 4
Column 5
Column 6
1
Date
Gross shorts 1
Issued capital
% Capital shorted 2
Trade volume 3
Shorts as % of volume 4
2
Tue 7th Aug, 2018
995,183
398,560,792
0.25%
5,933,489
16.77%
3
Mon 6th Aug, 2018
521,476
398,560,792
0.13%
1,797,927
29.00%
4
Fri 3rd Aug, 2018
877,478
398,560,792
0.22%
1,930,622
45.45%
5
Thu 2nd Aug, 2018
520,339
398,560,792
0.13%
1,978,288
26.30%
6
Wed 1st Aug, 2018
855,166
398,560,792
0.21%
4,050,408
21.11%
7
Tue 31st Jul, 2018
1,119,732
398,560,792
0.28%
6,296,999
17.78%
8
Mon 30th Jul, 2018
103,424
398,560,792
0.02%
1,158,634
8.93%
9
Fri 27th Jul, 2018
360,980
398,560,792
0.09%
1,061,601
34.00%
10
Thu 26th Jul, 2018
302,906
398,560,792
0.07%
1,589,793
19.05%
11
Wed 25th Jul, 2018
526,880
398,560,792
0.13%
2,077,338
25.36%
12
Tue 24th Jul, 2018
577,444
398,560,792
0.14%
2,333,864
24.74%
13
Mon 23rd Jul, 2018
523,478
398,560,792
0.13%
1,146,456
45.66%
14
Fri 20th Jul, 2018
980,214
398,560,792
0.24%
2,055,190
47.69%
15
Thu 19th Jul, 2018
556,859
398,560,792
0.14%
2,097,173
26.55%
16
Wed 18th Jul, 2018
889,337
398,560,792
0.22%
2,780,396
31.99%
17
Tue 17th Jul, 2018
1,123,328
398,560,792
0.28%
3,507,248
32.03%
18
Mon 16th Jul, 2018
529,079
398,560,792
0.13%
1,781,276
29.70%
19
Fri 13th Jul, 2018
562,706
398,560,792
0.14%
1,138,939
49.41%
20
Thu 12th Jul, 2018
468,008
398,560,792
0.11%
1,246,265
37.55%
21
Wed 11th Jul, 2018
401,446
398,560,792
0.10%
2,020,847
19.87%
1 Reported gross short sales.
2 % Capital reported as short sold (non aggregated).
3 Stock trade volume - ASX only (see
notes ).
4 See
notes .
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I suspect a fair bit of the daily volumes are shorters covering then doing a 'rinse and repeat'. There will not be enough shares to borrow for this type of concentrated shorting attack without doing the cover rinse and repeat type action.
