Renaissance wrote: Once the Suicide Squad, now The Sopranos.
Those of us who have been here long enough, have so often read the scenario, that we can easily imagine the scene.
Tony Soprano and his gang standing side by side, pissing away facing the wind, arrogantly holding their ground, proudly protecting their little business, but clueless of why their feet are getting wet.
Hey Tony, cover your shorts while it is still not too late, the day of reckoning is coming. The day, when you will not be able to protect your little business anymore, is getting closer.
That day, your daughter will figure out that you bought her lifestyle with organized crime money. You might believe there will be no consequences because you are doing it anonymously, but try looking into her eyes when she figures it out and despises you for steeling the average Joe’s money.
With your multiple aliases, you might try to make people believe that you are some type of modern Robin Hood, but you are not fooling anyone, we know that you are nothing more than a pale Tony Soprano’s imitation, a little low life self-serving gangster.
The real life scenario is.
These manipulators are caught with a long term short position that they have been trying to buy back, at a profit, for months now.
Even though their short position seems to only be a small percentage of the company’s float, they have a hard time buying it back at a profit because shareholders are not selling them their shares at a discount, they have done their due diligence and understand the company’s potential.
Even though they currently are in “profit taking” “buying back” mode, the manipulators are still shorting, but as little as they have to, with two objectives in mind;
1- killing any upward momentum to keep the share price within their profit zone.
2- taking advantage of any market weakness to depreciate the share price even more.
These fudsters objective is to undermine long term investors confidence and patience saying that it is Bernard’s fault that the company does not have an income.
Five years ago, Bernard could have decided to invest time and money to dig, a very low margin of profit, quartz quarry, instead of developing, what will be extremely profitable and in demand, new silicon technologies. He could now short cut the R&D, but he knows that it would be a bad idea that would only increase the risks without increasing the benefits. Long term shareholders understand that Bernard’s foreseeing is not a fault but a blessing that we need to respect with patience.
The fact that we do not see things happening on a dally basis makes it feels like it is taking forever, and even if it sometimes takes longer than expected, every day that goes by, advances HPQ’s projects and favours patient shareholders.
The real life scenario in numbers.
The report below shows that, in 2020 and 2021, the shorters were increasing their long term (consolidated) short position. They were doing it at a ratio of roughly 60% of the time. In 2022 they are trying to decrease they long term short position 75% of the time.
The report also shows that in 2022, in accordance with their intentions to decrease their long term short position, the shorters have mostly been active, wether in term of number of trades or in term of volume, during the times when the share price was increasing. Obviously because they wanted to keep the share price within their profit range.
There was a reversal of tendency, from increasing their long term position in 2020 & 21 to decreasing it now.
They will keep on shorting, but just enough to keep the share price within their profit range, while they try to buy back their shorts.
No doubts, they are trying to buy back their long term short position because they also believe it is only a question of time before they can no longer keep the share price within their profit range.
Do not help them make a profit at your own expense.
| HPQ-Silicon Resources Inc. |
| | | Short | % | Short | % | Short | % | Average | Consolidated |
| Year | Date | Sale | Total | Traded | Total | Traded | Total | price | No of | Net | % |
| | | Trades | Trades | Volume | Volume | Value | Value | of short | shares | Change | Inc / Dec |
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 2022 | Jun 30 22 | 33 | 2.374 | 97157 | 3.004 | 30685 | 2.992 | 0.32 $ | 1020236 | -98231 | |
| Jun 15 22 | 105 | 4.031 | 253011 | 4.414 | 100,375 $ | 4.473 | 0.40 $ | 1118467 | -35898 | |
| May 31 22 | 556 | 19.564 | 676270 | 11.96 | 278,965 $ | 11.405 | 0.41 $ | 1154365 | 383267 | |
| May 15 22 | 79 | 3.469 | 258609 | 5.405 | 118,334 $ | 5.587 | 0.46 $ | 771098 | 7729 | |
| Apr 30 22 | 24 | 1.683 | 53559 | 2.128 | 23,985 $ | 2.140 | 0.45 $ | 763369 | -111220 | |
| Apr 15 22 | 98 | 2.679 | 298591 | 4.397 | 150,397 $ | 4.470 | 0.50 $ | 874589 | -386571 | |
| Mar 31 22 | 740 | 12.481 | 1786472 | 13.136 | 912,201 $ | 13.592 | 0.51 $ | 1261160 | 296103 | |
| Mar 15 22 | 69 | 1.833 | 156800 | 1.898 | 49,620 $ | 1.875 | 0.32 $ | 965057 | -89580 | |
| Feb 28 22 | 50 | 2.197 | 75700 | 1.687 | 27,130 $ | 1.659 | 0.36 $ | 1054637 | -153518 | |
| Feb 15 22 | 26 | 1.065 | 53918 | 1.143 | 23,440 $ | 1.149 | 0.43 $ | 1208155 | -11056 | |
| Jan 31 22 | 115 | 4.418 | 247849 | 5.862 | 117,867 $ | 6.158 | 0.48 $ | 1219211 | -84604 | |
| Jan 15 22 | 109 | 4.286 | 319418 | 6.536 | 166,216 $ | 6.711 | 0.52 $ | 1303815 | -23588 | |
| | | | | | | | | Increased position | 3 | 25% |
| | | | | | | | | Decreased position | 9 | 75% |
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 2021 | Dec 31 21 | 88 | 3.696 | 174443 | 4.537 | 79,093 $ | 4.520 | 0.45 $ | 1327403 | -209591 | |
| Dec 15 21 | 454 | 9.722 | 1237748 | 14.283 | 642,600 $ | 14.579 | 0.52 $ | 1536994 | 181159 | |
| Nov 30 21 | 325 | 9.355 | 675360 | 13.566 | 410,510 $ | 13.566 | 0.61 $ | 1355835 | -128100 | |
| Nov 15 21 | 558 | 10.862 | 1224259 | 15.215 | 793,024 $ | 15.245 | 0.65 $ | 1483935 | 149361 | |
| Oct 31 21 | 584 | 15.220 | 1365816 | 22.130 | 893,877 $ | 22.324 | 0.65 $ | 1334574 | 192357 | |
| Oct 15 21 | 266 | 9.704 | 705974 | 16.294 | 495,514 $ | 16.414 | 0.70 $ | 1142217 | -267765 | |
| SEP 30 21 | 433 | 9.711 | 920540 | 11.502 | 642,566 $ | 11.466 | 0.70 $ | 1409982 | -274189 | |
| SEP 15 21 | 290 | 8.229 | 549736 | 10.205 | 399,114 $ | 10.142 | 0.73 $ | 1684171 | 20205 | |
| AUG 31 21 | 564 | 9.593 | 1415722 | 14.292 | 1,035,649 $ | 14.346 | 0.73 $ | 1663966 | 99132 | |
| AUG 15 21 | 545 | 9.651 | 1316721 | 13.286 | 780,913 $ | 13.091 | 0.59 $ | 1564834 | 2688 | |
| JUL 31 21 | 483 | 8.607 | 1152242 | 11.802 | 709,057 $ | 11.978 | 0.62 $ | 1562146 | -290529 | |
| JUL 15 21 | 623 | 11.440 | 1635905 | 18.877 | 1,107,946 $ | 18.627 | 0.68 $ | 1852675 | 46863 | |
| JUN 30 21 | 565 | 7.964 | 1542712 | 13.434 | 1,139,946 $ | 13.166 | 0.74 $ | 1805812 | -61127 | |
| JUN 16 21 | 364 | 5.235 | 699013 | 7.882 | 567,074 $ | 7.863 | 0.81 $ | 1866939 | 226770 | |
| JUN 01 21 | 805 | 10.440 | 1489398 | 13.438 | 1,246,194 $ | 13.352 | 0.84 $ | 1640169 | 241977 | |
| MAY 17 21 | 1703 | 15.719 | 2955348 | 20.006 | 2,746,184 $ | 20.485 | 0.93 $ | 1398192 | 77949 | |
| MAY 03 21 | 1043 | 7.185 | 2099453 | 10.310 | 1,856,915 $ | 10.684 | 0.88 $ | 1320243 | -403377 | |
| APR 16 21 | 1148 | 10.972 | 1298042 | 14.515 | 1,344,255 $ | 14.411 | 1.04 $ | 1723620 | 363509 | |
| APR 02 21 | 1363 | 10.688 | 1550817 | 12.381 | 1,700,217 $ | 12.303 | 1.10 $ | 1360111 | 32824 | |
| MAR 17 21 | 2836 | 10.425 | 3168961 | 11.193 | 3,591,398 $ | 11.447 | 1.13 $ | 1327287 | 441589 | |
| MAR 01 21 | 3018 | 8.018 | 3152463 | 8.744 | 4,652,876 $ | 8.643 | 1.48 $ | 885698 | -251766 | |
| FEB 16 21 | 1191 | 4.998 | 1934320 | 6.657 | 2,120,822 $ | 6.254 | 1.10 $ | 1137464 | -631063 | |
| FEB 01 21 | 2291 | 13.021 | 3802424 | 14.552 | 3,798,686 $ | 14.294 | 1.00 $ | 1768527 | 66058 | |
| JAN 18 21 | 1291 | 8.192 | 2950057 | 12.846 | 2,907,376 $ | 12.963 | 0.99 $ | 1702469 | -565275 | |
| JAN 01 21 | 1699 | 9.996 | 4298510 | 13.447 | 3,936,356 $ | 13.252 | 0.92 $ | 2267744 | 261657 | |
| | | | | | | | | Increased position | 15 | 60% |
| | | | | | | | | Decreased position | 10 | 40% |
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 2020 | DEC 16 20 | 1905 | 11.885 | 7450258 | 17.880 | 5,558,494 $ | 17.982 | 0.75 $ | 2006087 | 649171 | |
| DEC 01 20 | 753 | 15.305 | 4499080 | 24.082 | 2,336,222 $ | 24.194 | 0.52 $ | 1356916 | 57843 | |
| NOV 16 20 | 281 | 10.505 | 1085660 | 17.324 | 581,454 $ | 17.613 | 0.54 $ | 1299073 | 84024 | |
| NOV 02 20 | 641 | 12.389 | 2706565 | 16.306 | 1,426,170 $ | 16.619 | 0.53 $ | 1215049 | -171656 | |
| OCT 16 20 | 761 | 14.153 | 3986241 | 18.419 | 2,166,677 $ | 18.611 | 0.54 $ | 1386705 | 684583 | |
| OCT 01 20 | 671 | 10.243 | 3489265 | 13.764 | 1,550,731 $ | 13.880 | 0.44 $ | 702122 | 573559 | |
| SEPT 16 20 | 485 | 6.632 | 2336451 | 7.738 | 1,074,441 $ | 8.122 | 0.46 $ | 128563 | -135567 | |
| SEPT 01 20 | 747 | 10.902 | 3162651 | 13.491 | 1,598,520 $ | 14.512 | 0.51 $ | 264130 | 145351 | |
| AUG 17 20 | 698 | 12.162 | 2945250 | 14.428 | 1,537,183 $ | 14.509 | 0.52 $ | 118779 | -460798 | |
| AUG 03 20 | 1.102 | 13.268 | 5590942 | 15.125 | 2,965,147 $ | 15.582 | 0.53 $ | 579577 | -2213069 | |
| JUL 16 20 | 1.009 | 10.507 | 6731479 | 11.802 | 2,416,605 $ | 12.319 | 0.36 $ | 2792646 | 1672458 | |
| JUL 01 20 | 462 | 12.389 | 4353900 | 15.665 | 943,011 $ | 16.063 | 0.22 $ | 1120188 | 925869 | |
| JUN 16 20 | 526 | 16.656 | 4890910 | 15.981 | 794,311 $ | 16.512 | 0.16 $ | 194319 | -8852 | |
| JUN 01 20 | 180 | 11.968 | 2349981 | 13.033 | 281,857 $ | 13.423 | 0.12 $ | 203171 | 150061 | |
| | | | | | | | | Increased position | 9 | 64% |
| | | | | | | | | Decreased position | 5 | 36% |