Replies to post #302 on DEAD STOCK TRADING! (411)

[exisnet]

So they say...

[streetwalk]

This website http://shortvolume.com gives graphical presentation of the FINRA data.

[skichic]

Wow, slojab great post. I learned something very valuable. Used to fear these short numbers and couldn't understand why anyone would short a stock that by all appearances should be going up. Now I get it. Thank you.

[richierichstl]

Thanks for posting! That explains why an otc stock such as eltp has a great deal of daily short volume but its short ratio is just 1...

http://otcshortreport.com/index.php?index=eltp&action=view#.VBJkDtLETai

[bman]

Not trying to diminish what you're saying as I'm sure some the short shares can be defined as the poster you copied says, however sho report by Finra is what we have as reference and when the % of short shares is so high it is a bit telling. We all know that MMs also short and later replenish their inventory at a lesser price and sometimes are squeezed.
BYSD

[hokus pokus]

Thanks for the historical explanation of the truth behind the so called short sales .

[Eugen]

Hi,

Do you have an explanation for why the Total Market Volume (regular trading hours) as reported in the short sale daily file is usually less, and sometimes several times smaller than the Total Volume reported by the exchanges themselves ? For example AAPL on June 30th 2017 on NASDAQ. Total volume reported by NASDAQ ~18 Mil but data reported by FINRA is only ~4.9 Mil.

[jli86]

Thanks for the clarification.

In your example, the transaction is record as a short sale. But each transaction has 2 parties. The MM who short sell the stock must have a MM on the long side. So from that 2nd MM, is this transaction record as a buy? If yes, then we shall see the same numbers on Long (Buy) side vs Short (Sell) side, right? But that is not what we see on FINRA. What do I miss?

[iamadog]

Why do people post that there is no such thing. As shorting a penny stock. It happens all the time and market makers get caught doing it all the time. Ignoring that is happening does not make it go away. Google is a very interesting tool to research what has happened and still happens with market makers and the people they use to post negativity commonly known as bashers. There must be a logical explanation why out of nowhere knew posters appear in a stock posting with an agenda.