RE: Increased shorts28 Jan 2022 08:11
Marshall Wace is likely increasing for two reasons, one because they think COVID is over and that RMG's profitability will be heavily impacted by this.
Two, RMG stepped up the buyback program to 500k shares a day, with the daily volume currently around 2-3 million shares supply at those volumes will dry-up, the shorts are therefore creating artificial supply to meet the demand from the company.
It's very similar to DK v the shorts last year, with the difference being a lot of profit taking was likely taken at the higher level and I would assume real selling pressure from overhead supply (those who bought above the current price) will not occur until those holders approach their breakeven point.