Its fair to say a large portion of the shorts touted on these threads ad nauseum are a hedge, as has been discussed by a few of the sharper minds here several times previously.
This is why there is no 'short squeeze' or 'shorts will burn' anticipated by many, nor ever will be.. the proportion of naked short positions in that statistic being tracked is inconsequential, and most retail punters fancying their hand at shorting would only have access through CFDs, and those products don't get captured here
These institutions holding IMU, either mandated while in top 300 and briefly the top 200, hedge their downside risk, most likely completely delta neutral, particularly in speccy bio's rocketing in and out of the ASX200. Once the bio in question navigates the landscape and hits straps commercially, the hedge can be unwound, and profits realised
IMU Price at posting:
3.2¢ Sentiment: Hold Disclosure: Held
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