So if all shorts were covered with hopefully solid performance...

So if all shorts were covered with hopefully solid performance there would be a net purchase of

165804 (without the 000) .... placed underneath for comparison

These are the sales figure (without the 000)
3/1 3934
2/1 1531
31/12 4840
30/12 10668

??/?? 165804 over ? days/?weeks/?months
15x net sales figures for 30/12

If supply dried up and happened fairly quickly ..a happy day for some
I suspect supply is drying up bit by bit.

CEOChairs nice link
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-29/shorts-crucified-most-shorted-russell-2000-stock-gets-takeover-proposal