SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The value of shares that investors in China's onshore stock markets have borrowed to sell short held close to record levels set last week, amid bearishness over the new coronavirus pandemic, market data released on Tuesday showed. The value of shares used for shortselling was around 20 billion yuan ($2.83 billion) on Monday, just a touch below the record 20.3 billion yuan set on April 9, according to the latest data from China Securities Finance Corporation, a financial institution cofounded by Shanghai Stock Exchange and Shenzhen Stock Exchange. Among the shares most targeted for short-selling by Chinese investors were Kweichow Moutai (SS:600519), the country's largest liquor maker by market capitalisation, and an ETF tracking China's CSI300 blue-chip index (SS:510300). https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/chinas-stocks-shortselling-at-a-record-high-2139411 Bought some CSI300 call options. We know what will follow, don´t we?
When governments the world over are pumping hundreds of billions of dollars into their economies, what do you think is going to happen? China will pump trillions into its economy with the US down economically. Who is going to buy Chinese goods? Businesses that they left for dead will survive. Maybe, not all of them but, enough of them to plod on until the world economy recovers. Just proves that dumb money is still dumb. It does not matter if they live in Europe, Asia, US, etc. Their stupidity only hurts them. The sharks are circling, ready for their feeding frenzy. This is going to be pretty ugly as always.
Really? Tell me how a distillery can go bankrupt with a 30% profit margin? The stock trades at near all-time highs...
I am saying the short sellers will disappear. Literally human beings disappear. It doesn't even have to be in China. China has made people disappear in Thailand and other countries.
Fair, I misread your point. Sorry. Anyone who shorts a beverage maker with 30% profit margins indeed should be shot in the head.
I don't trust such news. I treat it as garbage fake manipulated deceiving news. There are far too much nonsense in Internet. Alot of news are written by unsuccessful, newbie, hopeless investors and traders. But they cannot fool professional traders Luckily I do my own analysis. And I only trust what my charts say. So You will not be able to scare me!!!!!!!
"]Really? Tell me how a distillery can go bankrupt with a 30% profit margin? " Going short on a stock means that you think it is overvalued. Not, that the co. is going into bankruptcy, This is basic.
Name me one stock in western markets EVER that traded at all time highs with rock solid balance sheet and profit margin and ended up the top shorted name in the country. Never happened. Some investors are monkeys. Or degenerate gamblers.