NYSE Only -- Short ReportAm interested in reading knowledgeable interpretations on this data as I am not quite sure what to make of it.
My sense is that traders/market makers are using short positions to keep the price surpressed while concurrently accumulating shares on an accretive basis over time, i.e., using naked short sale techniques to keeps prices low(er) while acquiring positions.
If correct it would suggest that the "true" trading volume on NYSE is the net of "long vs short" or ~1/4 to 1/2 of total reported volumes.
Thoughts/comments?
Historical Short Volume Data for PVG
| Date | Close | High | Low | Volume | Short Volume | % of Vol Shorted |
| Sep 21 | NA | NA | NA | 806,995 | 499,076 | 61.84 |
| Sep 20 | NA | NA | NA | 604,728 | 374,809 | 61.98 |
| Sep 19 | NA | NA | NA | 472,729 | 296,790 | 62.78 |
| Sep 18 | NA | NA | NA | 725,020 | 550,620 | 75.95 |
| Sep 17 | NA | NA | NA | 457,376 | 267,174 | 58.41 |
| Sep 14 | NA | NA | NA | 707,755 | 474,895 | 67.10 |
| Sep 13 | NA | NA | NA | 357,516 | 279,393 | 78.15 |
| Sep 12 | NA | NA | NA | 821,610 | 472,180 | 57.47 |
| Sep 11 | NA | NA | NA | 1,000,288 | 565,121 | 56.50 |
| Sep 10 | NA | NA | NA | 1,184,424 | 577,524 | 48.76 |
| Sep 07 | NA | NA | NA | 2,744,957 | 1,582,613 | 57.66 |
| Sep 06 | NA | NA | NA | 4,099,757 | 2,125,638 | 51.85 |
| Sep 05 | NA | NA | NA | 661,761 | 324,721 | 49.07 |
| Sep 04 | NA | NA | NA | 985,214 | 611,303 | 62.05 |