RE: Shorters6 Dec 2023 12:46
Fintel publish FINRA data. You can access most of the tables for free here without opening an account.
https://fintel.io/ss/us/mdai
For the past two days they seem to have eased down, with 'only' 33% of all transactions being short.
I have a hunch that HSBC non-delivery of shares is somehow linked to the rampant naked shoring. I'm not sure how because as far as my (limited) understanding of naked shorting goes, they don't need the shares, or even to know where the shares are, to sell them naked short. They essentially sell non-existent shares and the buyer will experience non-delivery because they were not real shares.
Unless they sold the actual people's HL shares short, in which case they seem to be screwed because the public float is only around 250k, they can never hope to buy the real shares back to deliver to HL customers.
If that is the case, it will be interesting to see how it plays out.