RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:New data short interest on SZLS dated Feb 5, 2021I'm just using the 16th to the 29th as an example, a lot of shorts are short term and follow all kinds of timing. The point I'm trying to make is that you can't use that report to say there isn't shorting. No one knows how much shorting does or doesn't happen on our stock because the report only shows two days worth of information each month. So if someone has the credit, they could short every share in our company on the 16th and close it on the 17th and you would never know that because the report will only show you the 15th and 30th. Unfortunately our company does have a lot more shorts than that report shows, as I mentioned they are very good at buying back leading up to reporting periods and then shorting again afterwards. After following this stock for a half decade you develop an eye for it. That's why we see such wild swings up and down. Pay attention as we get closer to the 15th, you'll see the price climb moving closer to it. Then after the 15th you'll see the price pull back again, with very similar volume. But then again, that just our history, and not every month is the same and not every year is the same. This year we have Aristotle launching and q4 followed by q1 in short succession so if they're smart they'll be buying in at this point and not taking any chances so that cycle might be interrupted, at least for the time being.
MarketMoney wrote: Jonnyboy85 wrote: I get what you're saying, and you're right, it's great that the report shows low, that's definitely progress. But the reality is that you're only seeing 2 days every month. The short report only shows the net difference in short activity on the 15th and 30th only. This means that every other day in the month is unaccounted for, which means I could short the stock on the 16th and close it on the 29th and it would never show on that report. So again it's great that it's lowered, but the people that short are very aware of this blind spot so they typically don't leave their shorts open on the 15th and 30th intentionally to hide their activity from you. The effect of this is that you can't tell when selling is from real investors or a manipulative short trying to scare the price down.
MarketMoney wrote: Jonnyboy85 wrote: While it's a nice thought, I'm sure the shorts have lessened a bit but the reality is they short between reporting periods to hide the true volume. The short report only shows the net difference of total shorts active on the 15th and 30th of each month. This means they can short and close all they want outside of that and you will never know the difference. It's a huge gap in access to information that should be closed at a regulatory level.
Jonnyboy85 Doesn't make any sense since the volume shorted is so low not even 0.01% and real short interest build up thru months and years. I never seen short being almost gone at 2 week interval, it's none sence! The reality is there's no significant short going on.
the reason why I'm saying it doesn't make any sence is the shareprice doesn't show any particular movement at 2 week interval meaning if there's shorting and covering every 2 week and nothing happen to the shareprice it's because there's so low activity in short interest that's irrelevant.
Company that have real short interest for months and years have significant movement when there's covering (like short squeeze) or shareprice having difficulty rising because of heavy shorting....SZLS have no real shorting going on, only tiny shorts once in a while.