Short sellers are dominant in Probf, Short sellers are very smart traders who take advantage of particular opportunities.
They usually monitor varies data points and social networks like stockhouse and others.
There are two types of short sellers
legal short sellers who borrow the stock to short .
This is legal and I've got no problem with that.
and
naked shorts which is illegal. ( see savecanadianmining.com)
If one looks at shortdata.ca and type in Probf the short sales
are listed.
For example on October 20th volume for the day was 61 106 share traded of which 82.65% of the volume was shorted!
There is at least one antidote to short selling