OPKO Short Information

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My first post as a newbie: There are 23,789 in the money call options contracts set to expire at the end of next week (very few set to expire at the end of this week). If I were the seller on those contracts, I would be looking to cover them sooner rather than later!

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Members: please participate in my poll if you haven't already. Thanks.

opkodd.proboards.com/thread/680/lack-resistance-support-11-14

[icemandios]

Welcome. And look around. There is a place called Option Trading where options are discussed. Option players look there for information about options. Since your post was here, they might miss it.

If you don't mind........no? ........Fine. I will copy your post there. It will still be here, but it will also be there where options players might find it interesting.

[aart8facts]

Burnaka just posted the new short numbers on the 'shoutbox' so I'll put them here so they don't disappear..... : o)

burnaka: Short interest at 66,958m up 1.495m, this batch shorted at 9.50 or lower.

Read more: opkodd.proboards.com/thread/648/opko-short-information#ixzz42SPXElyK

I especially like that this batch was shorted AT $9.50 or LOWER.....Priceless!

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Whose shorting this stock OMG!

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In the past, many of these nutbags keep shorting more, as the price climbs.

C L

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Some people have a death wish. I would be angry at them but they have enabled me to double my position down in the 7s and 8s over the past two months. T-minus 20 days until Rayaldee gets approved! June for the Analyst day, which should help Wall Street understand the company better.

[miamianne67]

Pls enlighten me...I don't short...what might they be thinking? Clueless in Miami

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Mar 10, 2016 11:55:50 GMT miamianne67 said:

Pls enlighten me...I don't short...what might they be thinking? Clueless in Miami

Goooood Morning Miiiiiami!

I think at this point they just want to hold it the PPS in check to get in on the long side. Then we have the mortality sickos and I leave it at that.

 We will have a lot of new "friends" when this plays out.

Gotta get to work, have a great day!

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Just wanted to share a little first hand story into how shorts can operate/manipulate.. this is how a hedge fund played an FDA event similar to OPK's situation.
As I've mentioned i had a brief 2 year stint at a HF, we were extremely active rotating some of our positions also held long/short positions.

Anyway.. i left in 2010-2011 and this is a war story i heard from a friend that still works there from 2012.(i think i remember it right)

ARNA Pharma had a magical weight loss drug that was long rumored to be approved by FDA, my fund was positioned @ around $7.. (ARNA had a run from $2-$14)

We got a call from "friendly" HF manager from another fund,spent an hour on the phone with my boss, and the jist of it was he was long and had a massive profit but he got wind FDA approval was a go and warned us he was also shorting the stock into the event.

June 27th Arena's BelviQ was approved, stock was halted, the "friendly" HF covered over 5 million shares right after the halt helping ARNA soar %40 intraday to an all time high of $13something. the kicker was they used a pop they helped create to unload the 10 or 20 million shares that they were long and holding from $4 and we also sold our position that day ..in the weeks later the "friendly" manager went full short the stock and we went along with him. Not sure where either of us covered but ARNA had a nasty ride the past few years.. mainly because the drug didn't sell as well as expected.

Point is.. these type of events are pretty widely known.. big money is known to work together and theres nothing we can do about it. Just hope they're on your side.

Short interest bumped up a bit in the last report right before a key event, theres a million ways to hedge and play an event.. could just be long term OPK holders protecting themselves..so what's the plan shorting into around $10 again? No one knows except the people who know. I'm not saying this story pertains to how OPK will react at all.. just some food for thought on how the shorts can go to work both for and against you.

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Opko Health Incorporated (NYSE:OPK) Shorted Shares Increased By 0.53% - April

The stock of Opko Health Incorporated (NYSE:OPK) registered an increase of 0.53% in short interest. OPK’s total short interest was 67.31M shares in April as published by FINRA. Its up 0.53% from 66.96 million shares, reported previously. With 3.59 million shares average volume, it will take short sellers 19 days to cover their OPK’s short positions. The short interest to Opko Health Incorporated’s float is 19.21%. The stock increased 1.58% or $0.17 during the last trading session, hitting $10.96. About 2.86M shares traded hands. Opko Health Inc. (NYSE:OPK) has risen 0.56% since September 4, 2015 and is uptrending. It has underperformed by 6.75% the S&P500.

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einhorns letter to shareholders: we had large short positions in netflix and amazon, the two best performing stocks in the market. As a result, we have lost money this year. Im sure a lot of you are not pleased, neither are we.

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who has large short positions in opk??? they will issue the same letter in the future

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Some of these funds are run by complete more ons.

C L

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and investors cant take their money back easily