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Thanks - learned a bit about short positioning https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/business/2008/jul/23/stockmarkets.shares
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edit: Apologies I mixed up your link with a twitter summary I had open.
I'm quite surprised by this chart:
The huge spikes are what draws the eye, but what seems really odd is that for the majority of the year, all shorts taken by UK firms have been almost exclusively by those connected to vote leave.
Can that be correct? Is that because almost all firms are connected to Leave? Or is it something else?
https://bylinetimes.com/2019/09/11/brexit-disaster-capitalism-8-billion-bet-on-no-deal-crash-out-by-boris-johnsons-leave-backers/