RE: Minimal closing of short by GSA reported so far26 Jul 2025 14:28
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Looking at the SP chart history of Avacta you would have to say that the GSA short position getting actively further increased during the spring period of 2024 held some risk for them (a case of how low do you try to go….) and I would guess their mindset would have been bullish that their increasing short position was actively contributing towards the continued downward momentum of the stock during that period. What we can then see is that when the SP significantly rose in the summer of 2024 that GSA took just 0.03% of 359,042,104 shares off the shorted table. This amounts to just 107,713 shares. They held their nerve and retained most of their short position, which with the benefit of hindsight was the right thing to do. What they did not do is further increase their short position moving forward as the return to a downward trend in SP played out from autumn 2024 onwards. So they kinda moved from being bullish to becoming somewhat neutral, almost as if they forgot / put on the back burner that they retained the majority of their short position.
Fast forward a year to now with their latest declaration where they have just reduced by 90,051 shares, which is a similar amount as the 107,713 shares reduction they did last year, it seems they are at an inflection point as to whether they do same as last year and hold their nerve to retain majority of short position or do they pursue a different path forward this time and move towards a close out?
It’s too soon to tell and we need to watch the GSA position with keen interest in the coming days/weeks, but we should be hopeful that their lack of bullishness in the past year means they will be more inclined to now pursue for the short closeout.