I've followed the CSE short sell counts for a while on this one. The "Count" is taken 2 days out of every 30 days/two week intervals, the count is for that day- the shorts existing that day. Going back many months it was as high as 400K, it dropped more or less steadily to 1st 1/2 December with 25K, and picked back up the second half December.. these numbers are approximates as I'm too lazy to open the files again, but they are close. In the "Canadian" markets it is relevant the trading is essentially thin, that market is designed to have.
What is looked at often as a model in the U.S. as mostly (Shorting) for Customer use for expectations and covering risk.. of course Broker Dealers use shorting to balance their risk/books and make market.
In Canada, shorting by broker dealers in "Inverse Funds" is a real and present manner of making money at the trader desks inside the Inverse Funds. Some might say the same exists in America, like in ETFs as it were... but due to 'Canada' being a 'thin market' the ability to short is needed and allowed and necessary for that market to even exist. To say.. without buying pressure, every Canadian stock would be worthless, shorted into the ground... that might define how the Canadian markets work.
You are correct that about 2/3rds of the stocks ongoing volume has been 1/3rd shorting, 1/3rd covering shorts, 1/3rd retail buying(few long position Institutional Fund buying).
Stillcanna will get some attention if sales happen, if profits are made... and imo, the Canadian market approaches that require a "rush' to overcome Inverse Funds will happen. What the volume will be, when it will happen, if the profits are measured I don't know..... but I added some in December...
Around the net, Germany, Canadian and American stock sites it is deluged with anti-Stillcanna sentiment from a few/same people and the volume of that discourse follows the volume of 'shorts' lolol.
The Moderator of this board has done a good job keeping nitwit knuckle heads from these Inverse Funds away as they are terribly insulting and accusatory... trust me.. other stock trading sites are not near as self policing as here.
Let see if the Founder being in Romania has some relevance, lets see if we get a update soon on sales. I'm keeping in mind this was always going to be a two year plan/buildout of 3 production plants and early in CBD markets expansion.
Now someone can scream at me for 'pumping',,,, what a crazy world startup company vesting is!!!
