Wednesday, September 05, 2018 4:26:07 AM
"Thank you for contacting FINRA’s Office of the Ombudsman. Regarding your question, it would be incorrect to assume that short sales comprise 32% of the total volume on that trading day for IPIX. FINRA publishes the daily short sale volume pursuant to an SEC mandate; however, there are various trading anomalies that result in the reported short sale volume often being exaggerated. Thus, the true total short sales volume may be significantly lower than the volume that is reported. Third parties sometimes ignore this and try to claim the ratio is valid to further their own objectives."
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MMs mark shares short temporarily to execute trades and they are almost always covered in the same day, therefore the actual short % is much lower than the # suggests. If the short volume indicates actual naked shorting, would the criminals be stupid enough to leave incriminating evidence in the FINRA file?
You can also check out these two posts for some detailed explanations.
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https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=132584168
Here are the official short interest and failure-to-deliver data.
Settlement Date: 8/15/2018
Current Short: 1,470,955
Previous Short: 1,436,908
Change: 34,047 (2.37%)
Average Daily Volume: 267,860
Days to Cover: 5.49
http://otce.finra.org/ESI
0.95% of the outstanding shares were short interest.
“In a “naked” short sale, the seller does not borrow or arrange to borrow the securities in time to make delivery to the buyer within the standard two-day settlement period. As a result, the seller fails to deliver securities to the buyer when delivery is due (known as a ”failure to deliver” or “fail”).”
https://www.sec.gov/investor/pubs/regsho.htm
According to the SEC, only 5,000 shares (0.0032% of the OS) were failure-to-deliver as of July 25.
20180725|45782D100|IPIX|5000|INNOVATION PHARMACEU|0.58
https://www.sec.gov/data/foiadocsfailsdatahtm
IPIX isn't on the Reg SHO threshold list, which means the stock has no significant FTD positions.
"A security will be placed on the threshold list if it has a significant fail to deliver position for at least 5 business days."
https://www.otcmarkets.com/market-activity/reg-sho-data
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