RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:VanEck decreases its Victoria Gold holdingsSpeculation only, but I suspect that the jump in outstanding shorts at the end of November is connected to the reduction in the VanEck ETF's. If you knew that VanEck was going to be selling VGCX shares, then why not front run that selling by shorting the stock - causing it to fall in price and buy back the VanEck shares sold on December 17 to cover your shorts. We won't know until the Dec. 31 short report.
I also suspect that with VanEck previously owning 9.2% of the outstanding shares that they either knew a lot more about this year's drill results than we do or if they didn't, then chose to reduce their position due to lack of disclosure. They started reducing their share position early this month, going from 5.783K shares to the current 4.639k shares.