its just Price History data in my CMC account.the average over...

its just Price History data in my CMC account.

the average over the prior 12 month period is 926,071 per day, so not too different. And shorts have increased by 5m shares since mid November, so that may account for most of it. There was also the volume that came from the EIB funding announcement on 30 Nov, and the analyst BUY note that came out (can't recall the analyst though).

Lets assume the Kinetic thing is real, noting I have not seen any solid confirmation. I think it more likely that they would be looking for block sales of individual holdings, or even the whole portfolio. Now if that was the case and you were a fund manager in talks to acquire the block off-market; it would be very much in your interest to short this thing, reduce the purchase price of the block, close your shorts out of the block purchase and then ride the thing back up. Millions made on the way down and then again back up as well. Unfortunately that is what retail has to compete with.