Read the latest interims.......just make sure that you are sitting down.

don't get over-greedy ... there is so much stock borrowed (hence inability to short for last 7/10 days) that a heavy bear squeeze at some point is inevitable

I suppose that depends on wether your broker physicaly covers in the market.

Rensburg are open to shorts on the stock but daily carry over is more expensive than other SBs.

Dont forget cyners blind shorting goes on with sola aswell. Not sure if the Berlin market takes part in this anymore.

Neither short nor long on anything at the moment just waiting for direction.

Figure for latest positon here...

http://www.investegate.co.uk/invarticle.aspx?id=26393

Over 27% on loan. Would be nice to get in on the trap unwinding as the SP shoots up.

That is a high %age. Elder's days to cover ratio measures the number of shares on loan that can easily be traded with the average daily volume so if there are a million shares on loan and the average daily volume is 100,000 it will take 10 days for those shares to get processed. Areading of 10 is safe but anything over is at risk of panic rally.

372p...cross my fingers

Falc, are you refering to Dr Elder here?. Which book please?.

The new one??.

Yes gold, sell and sell short. He refers to yahoo which usually gives short interest ratio and days to cover on key statistics but not it seems for sola in terms of crowded exits

Ive got the 'come into my trading room' so I will add this one.

many thanks.

It's only come out recently and you can also buy a workbook, about 30.

closed at 356p...wow.

Down 4% in the U.S. Nudging the july support level. Could go either way.

Well, it's reached the 360p level from which I thought it might bounce; be interesting to watch this over the next couple of days - didn't think it would fall below this but now looks like it may.

SOL U.S. recovered a bit to be almost flat on the day.

quite tempting to short SOLA even at this stage .... chart below shows several minor and possible support levels and interesting to note that PVCS is fractionally up, even today

except no one will lend stock, so not possible to short .... had forgotten!

PVCS holding up well today....surprising with what's happening to the rest of the market !.

News out today: "short selling has been banned"....

This is going to have a mega impact, with much wider ramifications for all sorts of activities and the companies that provide the platforms to do so.

not all shorting i think you will find ..... heavy restrictions on shorting financials only

Interesting to note from the MAs on the chart that if the 50 turns South and crosses down over the 200 we get a so called 'Death Cross'. Golden and Death crosses are usually pretty good indicators of future price performance. Also sitting on support once more so any break down now would seemingly put 200p back on the table.

Thanks Cynic and pth - I was already worried that all the fun had been taken out of trading!

with Wall Street looking to be heading for a sharp(ish) reaction after friday, a wee short here could be a good call