No sense22 May 2018 22:43
For someone with that much exposure, you should be more worried about a short attack than anyone else here's It also makes no sense to hold long AND short as you can't win in either direction. If the facts are as you say and you have half a brain, you would sell your entire holding now and buy back whenever the allegedly impending drop is sufficient.
Also, people running hedge funds are not idiots. Unless they *know* poor results are coming (insider trading, so no), it would be a ridiculous time to be opening a further short, just as they wouldn't "artificially raise the share price" in preparation for shorting when they already have £Ms invested, if they wanted to do this they would at least buy back their existing shorts. Nothing you say makes much sense tbh.