Tracking short interest

[renim]

Lend TSLA: 1.50%
Lend SCTY: 15.00%

Thought that all the shorts would have covered on SCTY with the recent fall, but it appears that they did the opposite. Or maybe there is some non-obvious factor at play.

I think there is another non-obvious factor at play, some posts suggested that even though SCTY had high rates, the posters themselves could no longer lend those shares. So for SCTY there was a rate squeeze but not a share availability (short squeeze). Quite different to Tesla early 2013. Similar to how SCTY unsecured bonds have a very high rate on them.

Its a little like Greece, debt is not a problem, until it is a problem.

the entities lending out the short shares seem to think the shorters had a debt problem, and jacked up rates to match. remember Shorters borrow shares.

Someone collected a lot of money, and it wasn't those long or short.

 

[Rarity]

Lend TSLA: 1.25%
Lend SCTY: 18.00%

 

[Rarity]

At Fidelity, My TSLA shares have been returned to me and have not yet been lent out again. So I no longer have visibility into the lending rate for TSLA.

 

[Yonki]

At Fidelity, My TSLA shares have been returned to me and have not yet been lent out again. So I no longer have visibility into the lending rate for TSLA.

Sorry to hear. I still have mine (for now), Fidelity's rates are now:
Lend TSLA: 0.75%
Lend SCTY: 18.00%

Short TSLA: 2.75%
Short SCTY: 27.00%

 

[Yonki]

Fidelity update:
Lend TSLA: 0.75%
Lend SCTY: 20.00% (+2%)

Short TSLA: 1.75% (-1%)
Short SCTY: 27.00%

 

[Yonki]

Fidelity:
Lend TSLA: 0.75%
Lend SCTY: 20.00%

Short TSLA: 1.5% (-0.25%)
Short SCTY: 27.00%

 

[Yonki]

aaaand...I'm out too. Last statement showed 0 shares of TSLA loaned out at 0.0%.

SCTY still at 20%

In addition to earning the interest, I sort of liked it when the rates were high because it meant that ammunition for the shorts was very, very expensive...

 

[Yonki]

Fidelity:
Lend TSLA: 0%
Lend SCTY: 20.00% (seems like this should be due for an increase if short is back to 40%)

Short TSLA: 1%
Short SCTY: 40.00%

 

[drinkerofkoolaid]

Have there been any recent changes to SEC margin requirements to short certain hard to borrow stocks?

What would cause this type of discontinuity?

 

[vgrinshpun]

Have there been any recent changes to SEC margin requirements to short certain hard to borrow stocks?

What would cause this type of discontinuity?

May be conviction is in short supply among the short sellers, and they do not dare to add to their positions, so demand to borrow TSLA to sell short plunged down?

Next stage will come when they will feel compelled to cover...

 

[Yonki]

Fidelity:
Lend TSLA: 0% (assumption, since I no longer have any shares lent out)
Lend SCTY: 18.00%, (-2%)

Short TSLA: 1%
Short SCTY: 30.50% (-9.5%)

 

[Yonki]

Adding shares available to short

Fidelity:
Lend TSLA: 0% (assumption, since I no longer have any shares lent out)
Lend SCTY: 18.00%

Short TSLA: 1%, 1,401,293 shares available to short
Short SCTY: 30.50%, 0 shares available to short

 

[drinkerofkoolaid]

Please provide update.

 

[vgrinshpun]

Fidelity shares available to short - 1,199,504
Est. Annual Interest Rate - 1.25%

 

[Yonki]

Fidelity:
Lend TSLA: N/A
Short TSLA: 1.25%, 1,048,611 shares available to short (down 25% from last Thursday)

Lend SCTY: 18.0%
Short SCTY: 28.0%, 0 shares available to short

 

[Yonki]

Fidelity:
Lend TSLA: N/A
Short TSLA: 1.25%, 1,131,534 shares available to short (up 90k since yesterday)

Lend SCTY: 19.0% (+1%)
Short SCTY: 33.0% (+5%), 0 shares available to short

 

[TheTalkingMule]

Short SCTY: 33.0% (+5%), 0 shares available to short

Nice! Thanks, these updates are appreciated.

 

[Yonki]

Nice! Thanks, these updates are appreciated.

Good to know.

It's nice to see short interest increasing while the stock price is increasing - shorts aren't pulling the price down, their position is getting increasingly more painful, and they're running out of ammo...

 

[jvonbokel]

Can anybody point me to a good source of historical data on the size of the float or outstanding shares? I have shares held short, but am missing a lot of data for either the total shares (outstanding/float) or the percent held short.

GuruFocus has about 6mo of data here, but I fell behind and missed about 6mo (Aug 2015 - Dec 2015). I think I got some other data from Ycharts, but I had to sign up for a trial.

 

[sunhelm]

Will the mid June TSLA short interest be published today AH?