Ann: Suspension from Official Quotation, page-108

You could pick up a lot from reading old SGH short threads, assuming you mean the short table above.

Shorts come and go. They may go short and then close. They may return, buy lower and close again. In that sense they are the same as longs, "trading" for profit.

But one difference is that short activity can be the inverse of long activity. For longs, as the sp increases, fewer shares are traded even if the dollar value is constant. For shorts, as the sp falls, there are smaller profits to be made and there may be fewer shares to borrow (ie fewer to go short on).

So in both cases the action can be greater at the start than at the end of the event that caused the action.

Also, as you probably can guess, the risk for both longs and shorts increases over time. Longs worry that the sp has run too hard; shorts worry that the fall has gone too far (ie the sp might recover).

Is that any use to you?