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As a relative new comer. I plan to keep my shares through Q3 news. In the meantime, where can I find out the % shorts please? I get the impression we have day traders interested and would like to analyse/ keep an eye on.
Thanks in advance.
You can't derive long-short ratio data for a UK share in any direct or simple way. Traders will take short positions in a variety of ways. For example, just selling your shares and hoping to buy them back at a lower price in the future is a clear short position, but you can't measure how many people or shares that affects, other than considering sells as a simple proxy for market belief that the price is going down. Some traders take more committed short positions by borrowing shares, selling them and having to buy them back at some point in the future, but there isn't a declared register of short positions. Then there is a whole bunch of people who just bet on shares going up or down without owning the shares, using spread betting websites, and those betting companies have to take share positions to hedge the bets of their customers (and sometimes you can see those positions if they get large enough to declare voting rights on a T-1)
To be honest, one of the most reliable bellwethers on AIM is to watch the discussion forums like LSE and gauge the appearance and disappearance of obvious short trolling discussion threads ;-) Those threads just don't appear on stable shares.
Thanks Blubay
Earlier in the year, I was reading LSE chat on a share that topped the leaderboard in short positions. People were referencing percentages. It was an AIM share.
Will keep reading LSE chat. ADVFN is awful. Never any useful discussions. Just mud wrestling.
OK, to back track, you can see data on declarations of short interest disclosed under the FCA's Short Selling Regulations but I think everyone agrees that many short positions evade that disclosure in various ways, or aren't covered by it.
For example, there are zero declared short positions for HE1 currently, go figure...
https://shorttracker.co.uk/company/VGG4392T1075/
Ha ha yes indeed.
Will put to good use. Cheers
Oh, and Market Makers and primary dealers like Liberum capital avail of exemptions from FCA declaration
Ok so whilst we wait for news, may I pick your brains…
How do Market Makers (apart from buying/ selling shares), influence the SP? I see conversations about MMs holding the SP down. How? Who sets the spread? I assume a tight spread encourages buying and a wide one selling?
Thanks
Morning Peeps.......!
Here ya go EauH2OOh.......! :)
https://www.piworld.co.uk/subject-areas/spencer-crooks-market-maker/
All the best (something for the w/e poss...........! :()
Most of that gossip is just pure nonsense intended to make people feel good or bad about holding their shares. In theory MMs can and do influence price by raising and lowering their bid/offer for shares, but there are multiple MMs making bids/offers on each stock and they don't really operate as a cartel. HE1 trades on AIM SETSqx, which is done by MMs participating in periodic auctions through the day. Contrary to popular belief they don't employ thousands of little gnomes to sit all day and monitor the chatter on every individual share listed on the London market though. If they're not active they just widen their margin and the trade will move towards to those with more competitive prices. Some MMs will be very active in some shares when there is trading action to address, but legendary rumours about 'filling a big order' are usually nonsense. A company like HE1 has billions of shares in issue with high trading volumes and it's really not that hard to get them.
Wow look at the buys!!!
Best place for shorts is M&S
Gla time to top up!
Is that meant to be satire?
Less "satire" and more "attire" Blubay ;0)
I think it’s still a little cold for shorts.
HE1 climbing back up? 📈