Yep ! Correct CB. Observation was rhetorical only but not...

Yep ! Correct CB. Observation was rhetorical only but not unexpected. Always brings a wry smile however how the short aggregate during accumulation is recorded as part of the ASX CXA daily gross but short aggregate during drawdown and rebalance magically often does not. As for CFDs. Thanks largely to the CFD product intervention order which resulted in an estimated 50,000 retail trading accounts in February and April 2021 alone being transferred to the offshore subsidiaries - in response to a responsible gambling type campaign to reign in net retail losses per quarter of on average from $372 million during COVID, we will never know the true extent as the high proportion of transactions are arguably now beyond the jurisdiction of ASIC. Not confident though that the removal of shorts en-masse like this will reap positive results for many months though.