RE:RE:RE:Short selling could very well be the reason for 30% declineAcutally there is daily short data available from most markets. The issue is that there is a lot of noise in this, many short transactions are part of regular trading or high frequency trading (e.g. buying shares and selling them short at the same time, no net short position).
I have been working on cutting through this noise though to get a lower bound. By my calculation the short interest for the Jan 15th settlement date is not necessarily higher than the Dec 31st one (again, only my lower bound is reliable at this point).
However, from Jan 14th to Jan 22nd there have been an increase in the short position of at least 250,000 shares. This will not appear in the Jan 15th data as the settlement date for the jan 14th transactions is after this date.
So it is very possible that the lack of bounce back in CXR relative to IBB is due to shorting.
GLTA
Marcel
Stockcoach1 wrote: sunshine7 wrote: Changes to short positions are certainly something worth keeping an eye on for future direction, however this BS of stating short positions every 2 weeks plus another couple days to view is inadequate. A lot can happen in 2 weeks as we know. I have no issue with short selling per se, but the market manipulation that is used by the big boys is evil. We all saw the 100 share block trading as it gets stepped down eventually hitting stops which begets selling. I find this akin to stealing, other see it as good greed. I would like to see short positions in real time for the average retail investor. Possible?
argentia77 wrote: Agree totally it's BS that NASDAQ waits 2 weeks plus a few days before releasing short positions. They have the numbers in realtime so why isn't that information released, if not in realtime, then at the end of each trading session? I'd like to know if it's available to big trading houses and brokerage firms.
I also agree with both of you. This ability to program a computer with 100 share lots works really well with stocks that have small floats and trade low volumes. Even on a day when we trade 1M shares, the computer has flipped the same shares numerous times distorting the numbers.
It certainly looks like the floor traders can access the short position # on a timely basis. Not us however. Should be an even playing field, but big boys with money will always be given the advantage.