With 11 trading days in the period at the daily average rate so far this year works out to about 487,000.
The lowest daily average rate for any bimonthly reporting period this year is 27,000, the highest is almost 69,000 so that puts the short increase between 300,000 and 750,000 shares.
5.25% is the average rate of the total volume for the the year. In the 11 day trading period there was a total volume of 4,487,765
shares and that results about 235,000 shares.
I kinda feel like I am pretty much contemplating my navel but the increasing short position, given the fundamentals defies my comprehesion. (ah, maybe I just hit on the real root of the problem)
