Thanks, I wondered about CFD's.
That is a huge market not to report shorts on!
Possibly the odd behaviour I have seen on some illiquid volatile stocks is due to a fund that is using CFD's on illiquid volatile stocks as part of a leveraged index fund?.
This might explain the lack of short reporting and the simultaneous market wide SXXT crosses after most have been pushed down +30% after a few days of constant pressure with caps and small gap down sales at every opportunity.
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If lent superfund stock is also not reported, we are also talking about huge chunks of stock that are short that the market knows nothing about;
It may be then, that shorting and covering activity accounts for around two thirds of market activity?!
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If the above are the case on the new reporting format, then the shorts report, and my new chart will surely be a waste of time. Anyone know where I can find out what will be reported on in the new report?
Why does ASIC bother to have a requirement for a short report if it does not include all shorting activity!? lol.
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Here is my Aluminium (or is that Aluminum) index that has been a shorting frenzy over the last 42 days.
Also seems to be lots of shorting in the gold sector since that volume spike 43 days back.
But on closer inspection this mostly seems to be NCM related which has been a clear index underperformer since it broke from the index 43 days back and started getting hammered by shorters.
