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Bullboard - Stock Discussion Forum NEWALTA CORPORATION T.NAL

"Newalta Corp provides engineered environmental solutions that enable customers to reduce disposal, enhance recycling and recover valuable resources from oil and gas exploration and production waste streams."

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NEWALTA CORPORATION > Short squeeze
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Post by robbie80 on Dec 08, 2016 3:28pm

Short squeeze

Two millions shares were shorted during November before OPEC annoncement. Probably more shares were shorted this week to keep price down this week.
Comment by Marchy63 on Dec 08, 2016 3:55pm
Hopfully noone was shorting it currently. It just jumped 20%. Hopefully it keeps going up!
Comment by compsys68 on Dec 09, 2016 6:52am
Can you post a link to where your getting your short information from ? 
Comment by robbie80 on Dec 09, 2016 9:20am
https://www.financialpost.com/markets/data/market-short_pos.html Largest Short Position Increases 2016.11.15 - 2016.11.30 Company Security Symbol 2016.11.30 2016.11.15 Net Change Aurora Cannabis Inc com ACB 18,018,101 6,766,100 11,252,001 Spartan Energy Corp  ...more  
Comment by compsys68 on Dec 09, 2016 10:46am
thanks you for the timely info looking at a net house report for the same 11.15-11.30 time frame you can clearly see that Morgan Stanly -618K Anonymous -428K Instinet -130K Goldman Sachs -128K were responsible for the majority of the short. The very interesting part is that over the run of the past two days, Morgan Stanly -600 Anonymous -83K Instinet +18K Goldman Sachs -500 have not participated ...more  
Comment by Delgan88 on Dec 10, 2016 2:30pm
VIENNA — OPEC has persuaded 11 non-member countries to cut their oil production in an attempt to raise low prices that have put pressure on government finances in resource-dependent countries. Qatari Energy Minister Mohammed bin Saleh al-Sada said Saturday that non-members agreed to cut 558,000 barrels per day, less than the 600,000 OPEC had hoped for. Those non-member cuts would come on top ...more  
Comment by compsys68 on Dec 10, 2016 6:09pm
More great news that will help NAL get back in to the high single digits or low double....It will be interesting to see what happens when the 2MM share that is short is going to have to cover.
Comment by Delgan88 on Dec 10, 2016 9:22pm
Yes it will be interesting 
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