I believe the table below shows the truer picture: Column 1|...

I believe the table below shows the truer picture:

	Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5	Column 6
1	Date	Gross shorts 1	Issued capital	% Capital shorted 2	Trade volume 3	Shorts as % of volume
2	Wed 11th Nov, 2015	1,241,940	3,505,808,427	0.03%	5,868,744	21.16%
3	Tue 10th Nov, 2015	157,336	3,505,808,427	0.00%	5,549,676	2.84%
4	Mon 9th Nov, 2015	248,026	3,505,808,427	0.00%	3,930,045	6.31%
5	Fri 6th Nov, 2015	1,643,976	3,505,808,427	0.04%	6,525,083	25.19%
6	Thu 5th Nov, 2015	29,881	3,505,808,427	0.00%	11,072,755	0.27%
7	Wed 4th Nov, 2015	72,024	3,505,808,427	0.00%	5,143,732	1.40%
8	Tue 3rd Nov, 2015	159,188	3,505,808,427	0.00%	1,841,448	8.64%
9	Mon 2nd Nov, 2015	66,179	3,505,808,427	0.00%	15,463,706	0.43%
10	Thu 29th Oct, 2015	45,300	3,193,308,427	0.00%	6,768,538	0.67%
11	Wed 28th Oct, 2015	975,784	3,193,308,427	0.03%	5,230,767	18.65%
12	Tue 27th Oct, 2015	1,812,586	3,193,308,427	0.05%	4,658,595	38.91%
13	Mon 26th Oct, 2015	2,232,888	3,193,308,427	0.07%	9,014,168	24.77%
14	Fri 23rd Oct, 2015	562,740	3,193,308,427	0.01%	9,884,227	5.69%
15	Wed 21st Oct, 2015	60,902	3,193,308,427	0.00%	2,953,109	2.06%
16	Tue 20th Oct, 2015	123,711	3,193,308,427	0.00%	4,946,115	2.50%
17	Mon 19th Oct, 2015	426,200	3,193,308,427	0.01%	5,548,142	7.68%
18	Fri 16th Oct, 2015	869,194	3,193,308,427	0.02%	5,098,791	17.05%
19	Thu 15th Oct, 2015	824,883	3,193,308,427	0.02%	3,499,769	23.57%
20	Wed 14th Oct, 2015	696,680	3,193,308,427	0.02%	7,535,754	9.24%

If you look at wed 11th Nov it shows that there was a total of >1.2m short sales or 21% of the vol, I don't call that getting better.

HKP