DingoBorat
Slim
Shorting is of course only one tool of market manipulation.The other issue is that with a closing price around 29c on the 15th Sep, and a price on Oct 12th of 18.5c, there were similarly about 5.9% of shares shorted, yet the valuation is 35% less, so it could also seem that something else other than short selling is at hand here to depress BRNs market val.
There's using sentiment as a tool (fear and greed both ways).
Fake buy volume, fake sell volume.
"Fake" sells or buys between different accounts of the same holder or institution.
Algorithmic bot trading, using all of the above etc etc.
The share price of any company (if there is sufficient money to be made) is always manipulated, either up or down, for maximum profit.
The underlying vehicle, is irrelevant.
Your previous posting doesn't display the level of naivete that you claim.
Maybe I'm just mistaken, calling you smart..