Yesterday 27% short sales, today 56%. Now somebody
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If market makers need to naked short some, and quickly cover it, to make a market run smoothly, why would that number vary by more than ONE HUNDRED PERCENT from one day to the next?
Arrgh, well I tried to post an image of the chart but it doesn't work, so --
here's a link to yesterday's and today's one minute chart. We got "dandruff" again, a lot of little tiny trades that look like specks. Almost all of today's volume was in 3 trades.
I don't for a minute believe that the philanthropic market makers decided to make sure that 25,000 share lots shouldn't have to wait to have their orders filled -- not when I've had the experience of sitting for several minutes with a bid at the ask price, on small lots.
So, there's something going on. And everyone who says the FINRA data is meaningless -- we don't know how to interpret it, for sure, but it can't be meaningless. Not with 27% one day and 56% the next.