What I mean is: 1. ASIC collates the figures from the reports...

What I mean is:

1. ASIC collates the figures from the reports from shorters and publishes them with a disclaimer as to accuracy.

2. If you watch the figures for any length of time you can observe there are occasions when large fluctuations occur that cannot be explained by trading figures that cover before during and after the publication date of the outstanding short report from ASIC.

You may conclude that either ASIC’s report is an inaccurate summary of the shorters reports, or
the shorter’s reports are inaccurate. Then I suggest you need to consider whether any of this is poor arithmetic, delayed reporting or deliberate wrong figures. The motive may be to mislead investors into thinking shorts are increasing or decreasing and convince them to trade accordingly.

That is only my opinion based on my own observations. I would collate some examples but can’t assemble such detail from my current situation in a hospital bed.

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