It's not about the fractional short interest, it's about the availability of stock to borrow. A lot of institutional investors and other big holders do not like lending the stock because that depresses the stock price. So the short interest is low and short rebate is high for stocks with high institutional ownership. That is different for stocks held by hedge funds via their primes, stocks that are part of large ETFs and stocks with high retail ownership. Most retail investors hold the stock in a discount broker who usually had a stock lending agreement as part of the user agreement. It's part of the discount brokers model, they charge the rebates from their shorts but do not pass it to the longs. Same with stocks held by ETFs or lower-end prime brokers - they use the borrow rates to juice up their returns.
sle, thanks. That makes sense. However, these super high lend rate stocks that NASDAQ claims have very small short positions, yet the market says have huge short positions and thus 80%, 100%, 120% interest rates are not institutionally owned stocks. Take RNKLF, outside of Eric Sprott buying over 10% Yahoo lists 0.05% owned by institutions Douglas C. Lane & Associates, LLC 190,000 Dec 30, 2018 0.05% 91,200 AIPT at 106% interest rate is % Held by Institutions 3.45% It is the least held by institutions that have the highest interest rates. And the opposite, take CVNA, super high institutionally held, Top Institutional Holders Holder Shares Date Reported % Out Value Spruce House Investment Management LLC 4,870,000 Sep 29, 2018 14.22% 287,768,300 Vanguard Group, Inc. (The) 2,621,582 Sep 29, 2018 7.65% 154,909,280 Blackrock Inc. 2,099,988 Sep 29, 2018 6.13% 124,088,290 CAS Investment Partners, LLC 2,056,159 Sep 29, 2018 6.00% 121,498,435 Goodnow Investment Group, LLC 1,722,320 Sep 29, 2018 5.03% 101,771,888 Sylebra HK Co Ltd 1,603,356 Sep 29, 2018 4.68% 94,742,306 683 Capital Management LLC 1,561,634 Sep 29, 2018 4.56% 92,276,953 Melvin Capital Management LP 1,400,000 Sep 29, 2018 4.09% 82,726,000 Point72 Asset Management, L.P. 1,169,184 Sep 29, 2018 3.41% 69,087,082 Whale Rock Capital Management LLC 1,142,177 Sep 29, 2018 3.33% 67,491,238 Yet CVNA is 52% shorted of all stock! And as guessed so it is so extremely shorted and in extreme demand by shorters, the interest rate is tiny, and sure enough https://iborrowdesk.com/report/cvna the interest rate is only 2% Whatever makes sense and follows the laws of economics and logic is the opposite of the truth in the Short World. Everything seems to be backwards and upside down. Welcome to the Twilight Zone.
in Italy there is an obligation to report when taking short positions greater than 0.5% of capitalization. I do not know if it's an esma directive. I've never seen it done in other European countries. When they report the overcoming of 0.5% it is unknown if they have just started and if they will continue to short or if they are preparing to liquidate to leave the position. Surely they will find less expensive systems to borrow stocks. However they are required to notify the variation every day at 16.00 Italian time. so if you then see 0.40 0.30 it's because they start moving http://www.consob.it/web/area-pubblica/pnc
e.g.please explain what 0,59 from carlson represents? are we talking about their entire portfolio of the hedge fund or one individual position? is 0,59 = 59% 0r 5.9% or something else?
OK the RNKLF situation even became more untenable today for shorts. The expert billionaire gold stock investor is buying RNKLF like crazy in open market, over a million shares per day average last two days. Recent filings Filing date: 2019-02-04 Transaction: 2019-01-30 $RNX Royal Nickel Corporation Sprott, Eric S. 3 - 10% Security Holder of Issuer Common Shares 10 - Acquisition or disposition in the public market $417,671.10 +676,500 vol $0.6174 each 47,913,542 Filing date: 2019-02-04 Transaction: 2019-01-30 $RNX Royal Nickel Corporation 2176423 Ontario Ltd. 3 - 10% Security Holder of Issuer Common Shares 10 - Acquisition or disposition in the public market $417,671.10 +676,500 vol $0.6174 each 47,913,542 Older filings Filing date: 2019-02-01 Transaction: 2019-01-28 $RNX Royal Nickel Corporation Sprott, Eric S. 3 - 10% Security Holder of Issuer Common Shares 10 - Acquisition or disposition in the public market $252,000 +400,000 vol $0.63 each 47,137,042 Filing date: 2019-02-01 Transaction: 2019-01-29 $RNX Royal Nickel Corporation Sprott, Eric S. 3 - 10% Security Holder of Issuer Common Shares 10 - Acquisition or disposition in the public market $63,000 +100,000 vol $0.63 each 47,237,042 Filing date: 2019-02-01 Transaction: 2019-01-28 $RNX Royal Nickel Corporation 2176423 Ontario Ltd. 3 - 10% Security Holder of Issuer Common Shares 10 - Acquisition or disposition in the public market $252,000 +400,000 vol $0.63 each 47,137,042 Filing date: 2019-02-01 Transaction: 2019-01-29 $RNX Royal Nickel Corporation 2176423 Ontario Ltd. 3 - 10% Security Holder of Issuer Common Shares 10 - Acquisition or disposition in the public market $63,000 +100,000 vol $0.63 each RNKLF shorts have much more to fear than the longs, the list goes on and on, 1. Longs get 75% interest, Shorts pay about 150% interest (both at IB, half that at Etrade), which has more staying power? Who has time on their side? 2. Who has more to fear from news? The initial gold strike caused a 15 bagger and fast. No news has crushed Longs, a hint. 3. Who has more to fear from a big player, is there a billionaire on both sides or just one side? The irrationality of a short position in RNKLF is separate from the irrationality of short interest being higher for lower demand stock than higher demand stocks, just another mystery in the Short World.