The other info I may use, is the ASX Daily Gross Short Sales reported.
This is basically the number of shares short sold the previous day. For Core an average day maybe 2-4M, but could be couple hundred thousand to 15M ish. IMO is what the shorters want the price to do for the day, up a bit, hold or fall.
So the ASIC data and ASX data have 4 days lag, allowing for settlement and for the shorter to decide what they are doing, ie may decide to return borrowed / loaned shares to original owner or close the short.
Now ASIC and ASX, are the regulator, facilitator, the BIG BOYS. Shortman? a service provider... Still dont know who your source is has ********** in your post.
Believe who you like, this is HC. Me, tend to follow the regulator and the market exchange facilitator. The shorters do to a certain extent, ie follow the administrative processes and then run it "like the wild wild west"... yeehawww.
GLTAH
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