OTCPK:BIOAQ - Post by User
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Mrtkr1on Feb 17, 2018 8:19pm
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Shorting dataOk Canadian traders, here’s some info on shorted shares since the switch to OTC:
1. Nearly 16 million shares have been shorted. Not really sure how many have covered. If I had to guess based on sp activity, I would say not me.
2. OTC rules didctate that for every share shorted, you MUST have $2.50 free in your margin. This means ~$40 million dollars are locked for a company with a market cap of $5.8 million. This is insane.
3. If the company went bankrupt today, these short would see additional profits of $1,000,000 max total. That means all their additional profits would amount to $1million
Should the stock continue to move up, the $2.50 free in margin, will be compromised and shorters will have two choices. Start to close so of their positions or dump additional cash into margin to be locked up. As volume decreases, it will become harder and harder to find shares to borrow to short. It will also become harder to cover short positions. Shorters have no real choice but to outbid other shorters and regular buyers to close positions.
Now remember there are large short positions from the NYSE days that are open. They are in the money big time. They won’t want to lose any of these profits and some of them will inevitably close their positions. Again remember no TSX so OTC is the only place to buy or sell. If these larger NYSE shorts start to close, you will see an accelerated move up. OTC shorters receive margin calls and they have to close. I am not talking about miracles. I am talking about the reality of shorting Bioa. There’s a point where it is no longer wise nor profitable to hold shorts. Have we reached that point? That’s for each investor to decide. However, if you are a long or day trader, it’s worth noting that selling cheap hurts others but more importantly hurts your own investment and speeds up additional loses.
Shorters of penny stocks are not average retail investors. They are hedge funds. They don’t kill a stock out of anger or malice. They do it because it’s profitable and will stop the moment it’s no longer profitable. Just like many other business, the fund managers have parameters they have to abide by.
hope this helps the average investor here. Happy long weekend