from what i understand the short numbers are not indicative of short positions. MMs short to create a liquid market as usually they don't own shares. MMs make their money off the spread and off volume. So all this "shortie get burned" blah blah blah is misleading and definitely will scare off new investors. Not to say nobody owns a short position, but those numbers are not the amount of volume of short positions.
taken by itself daily .. it doesn't mean much per se
== a few links worth bookmarking because this info can't be *fudged* .. unlike a stock that can be *wash traded* via a few accts with regularity and that happens all the time on the OTC
i've been noticing the *t trades* of size done ah's
those trades conveniently bypass finra's daily reg sho percentages it really doesn't matter if it's *retail* .. those of size shown aren't retail imo .. particularly yesterday's eye popping no. and the last trade recorded today
== also daily reg sho info which does indeed show true *percentage* wise over weeks .. but requires the percentages tracked daily .. and noting t trades of size that bypass what is reported to finra