During high volume days (normally, when the price is rising), one can look back and see the percentage of short activity makes up a much smaller percentage of total volume. The stock price rises without any of the familiar deep precipitous parabolic drops that have no apparent catalyst outside of low volume vulnerability. Certainly, day traders amplify these movements, but when a stock has close to 40% short volume, that is going to have a huge influence over the price movements. When volume is low, it is the large block orders that appear to dominate Times & Sales and so they easily control price movement, whereas, when more general interest and exitement is coming into the stock, there are many more smaller transactions, which in aggregate make the large block transactions less important. I believe uplisting is very important for there to be a better linkage between the performance of the company and the stock price, since it will bring in institutional ownership and much more non-shorting volume.
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