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Short interest was highest at the bottom, and is much lower now (just generally, changes are going to correlate with price)...~45m in July, and is now ~25m (whi

Short interest was highest at the bottom, and is much lower now (just generally, changes are going to correlate with price)...~45m in July, and is now ~25m (which is where it was at the start of the year). So 20m shares have been called in...daily volume is about ~9-10m so no short squeeze (afaik, TSLA is pretty easy to short because it is owned by so many retail investors...total shares outstanding is ~175m so turning over ~10m/day is a lot of volume).

sigstoat 7y ago
> afaik, TSLA is pretty easy to short because it is owned by so many retail investors... i didn't think retail investor held stock was normally loaned out. in fact, i thought it was only loaned when you had it in a margin account, and had gone negative? whereas the big index funds report how much extra they earn by loaning out stocks. (probably hand-waving over terminology. apologies.)
- hogFeast 7y ago
  Nope. The exact case is going to depend on your situation (some brokers have stock loan programs, some put you in these programs automatically, some don't). But yes, it is easy to borrow shares with more retail investors (I think the borrow for Tesla is like 2% or something).