NorthWest Biotherapeutics Inc (NWBO)

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As long as NWBO is on the OTC Institutional interest and participation will be low. No index funds no pension funds. Just a few hedge funds. Some of these might be packaged vehicles to allow short sellers to participate on the long side in heavily shorted stocks thereby hedging against short positions without having to cover the short positions. Nearly 100% of short positions in NWBO as determined by deductive reasoning are held by hedge or family funds in accounts of more than $25 million as only way to effectively short penny stocks is not to be subject of $2.50 per share cash or marginable securities ( and penny stocks are not marginable ) per short share. These funds are not concentrated in just a few short positions but as many stocks as possible to take advantage of numerical averages of Penny Stock failures and not have returns on the basket of short positions unduly impacted by the spectacular success of a few of the companies held short in the short basket.
In a case where a short position balloons in price computer algos of the short funds will cover go long and then re-short at peaks often repeated many times a day or even multiple times within each hour on Computer Driven High Frequency Trading. That is why the volumes on the parabola stocks are often times multiples of the entire issued shares of the spiking stock in a single day. I dare say that short funds equipped with HFT capabilities welcome these parabolas as they would make out like the bandits they are by HFTrading the stock that spike day. Decades ago when the regulation was enacted the $25 million to not be subjected to margin requirements was a fairly high bar meant to allow MM to function. Now it excludes only retail from "The Club".
Being a member of "The Club" and having HFTrading capabilities guarantees that the member will profit on short selling. This is especially true now when the club members can borrow unlimited amounts of shares to sell short from the Wire Houses ( the major broker dealers GS, MSSB, Citi etc. )that manufacture phantom shares to loan to the short funds for a fee. That capability is due to the Wire Houses jointly owning and controlling the largest stock clearing houses.