Short Rate keeps climbing 😈💦

费北敬 : What is short rate

Stock_Pup : Let’s Go AMC!

Mike Hunt : That only applies to retail who short because only retail borrows shares to open short positions.  Why would hedges be subject to availability and pay a cost to borrow when they can naked short?  And given that only 15% of volume traded every day is retail, what percentage do you think is short of that 15%?  Maybe a third (probably high)?  But even if it was ORTEX, FINTEL and all that only applies to 5% of total volume traded.  I’m convinced it was hedge plants who got retail fixated on these numbers that have NO RELATION to what hedges do.  They sit back and laugh when they see retail post this stuff all the time.  I’m not condemning you, just trying to make you aware of how it actually works.  Those figures relate only to retail shorts.  The institutional side does not borrow shares to open a short or pay a cost to borrow.  See “naked shorting”.