RE:RE:we are fightingJuno,
Do not underestimate the presence of day traders....
Remember that 70% of the volume on the TSX V presently is traders...
Second o, there is a lot of circumstantial evidences that demonstrate that these traders will try to play the range, and one of the way they play the range is have both bid and ask on the book, sometime they find themselves with long position, and sometime they find themselves in short position. (They do not have to report there short position, if they manage to close them or find a way to roll them over on the 15 and the 30 of the months...)
Want so proof:
Look at house position 88:
Present bid and ask;
V:UBR Depth by Order @11:15:51
Bid |
|
Ask |
Broker |
Size |
Price |
|
Price |
Size |
Broker |
1 Anonymous |
5,000 |
0.065 |
|
0.07 |
20,000 |
58 Qtrade |
1 Anonymous |
1,000 |
0.06 |
|
0.07 |
15,000 |
88 Credential |
7 TD Sec |
15,000 |
0.06 |
|
0.075 |
22,000 |
88 Credential |
1 Anonymous |
4,000 |
0.055 |
|
0.075 |
26,000 |
7 TD Sec |
85 Scotia |
25,000 |
0.055 |
|
0.08 |
10,000 |
85 Scotia |
7 TD Sec |
30,000 |
0.055 |
|
0.08 |
18,750 |
124 Questrade |
88 Credential |
50,000 |
0.05 |
|
0.08 |
6,250 |
124 Questrade |
1 Anonymous |
4,000 |
0.05 |
|
0.08 |
1,000 |
79 CIBC |
1 Anonymous |
4,000 |
0.05 |
|
0.085 |
22,500 |
124 Questrade |
9 BMO Nesbitt |
24,000 |
0.045 |
|
0.085 |
10,000 |
85 Scotia |
And now look at the house position from June 1 2013 to today:
81 HSBC |
332,500 |
20,027 |
0.06 |
500 |
22 |
0.044 |
332,000 |
-20,005 |
2 RBC |
890,000 |
51,305 |
0.058 |
560,760 |
35,831 |
0.064 |
329,240 |
-15,474 |
7 TD Sec |
1,189,000 |
68,327 |
0.057 |
979,081 |
56,924 |
0.058 |
209,919 |
-11,403 |
80 National Bank |
270,333 |
17,661 |
0.065 |
125,000 |
7,287 |
0.058 |
145,333 |
-10,374 |
99 Jitney |
135,500 |
5,555 |
0.041 |
71,000 |
3,405 |
0.048 |
64,500 |
-2,150 |
58 Qtrade |
30,000 |
1,650 |
0.055 |
10,000 |
650 |
0.065 |
20,000 |
-1,000 |
48 Laurentian |
10,500 |
615 |
0.059 |
0 |
|
10,500 |
-615 |
36 Latimer |
12,844 |
735 |
0.057 |
8,044 |
507 |
0.063 |
4,800 |
-228 |
57 Interactive |
0 |
|
12,850 |
798 |
0.062 |
-12,850 |
798 |
124 Questrade |
20,750 |
1,206 |
0.058 |
47,000 |
2,735 |
0.058 |
-26,250 |
1,529 |
19 Desjardins |
31,000 |
1,735 |
0.056 |
63,490 |
4,139 |
0.065 |
-32,490 |
2,404 |
88 Credential |
79,400 |
3,970 |
0.05 |
125,400 |
8,659 |
0.069 |
-46,000 |
4,689 |
85 Scotia |
376,500 |
20,980 |
0.056 |
436,750 |
27,478 |
0.063 |
-60,250 |
6,498 |
9 BMO Nesbitt |
72,000 |
4,465 |
0.062 |
208,847 |
12,254 |
0.059 |
-136,847 |
7,789 |
79 CIBC |
129,561 |
7,106 |
0.055 |
508,166 |
22,233 |
0.044 |
-378,605 |
15,127 |
1 Anonymous |
147,000 |
7,180 |
0.049 |
570,000 |
29,595 |
0.052 |
-423,000 |
22,415 |
TOTAL |
3,726,888 |
212,517 |
0.057 |
3,726,888 |
212,517 |
0.057 |
0 |
0 |
Funny that 88 is 46,000 short at 0.069 while being on the bid with 50,000 at 0.05...
Funny also they are showing 37,000 to sell at 0.07 and 0.075 !!!
Would not be surprise to see the same pattern with RBC and TD...