tracking current stock promotions

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This post may not be exactly in keeping with the stated purpose of this board, but I hope it is close enough:


Today I stumbled on to the source of information that I believe gives at least a probable assessment of how many shares are dumped on a given day.

This is because I believe that the FINRA calls a sale without a buy in the open market a short, when that could also be a company dumping shares(Dilution). I could be wrong, shoot me down if I am.

Pick your favorite promoted stock, and ask yourself if selling required shorting, or selling was dilution.

Look at MIKP for instance, do you really think that 25,559,976 shares needed to be shorted today, with a promotion going on?

Date|Symbol|ShortVolume|TotalVolume|Market
20100218|MIKP|25559976|47677385|O


http://www.finra.org/Industry/Compliance/MarketTransparency/ADF/RegulationSHO/

If you click on "Daily Short Sale Volume Files" at the bottom you get shown this page:

http://regsho.finra.org/regsho-Index.html

Go to the bottom and select a date from the ORF section. The file for today, the 18TH of February, 2010 is:

http://regsho.finra.org/FORFshvol20100218.txt