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To: samim anbarcioglu who wrote (91346)	4/9/2001 12:41:26 PM
From: pater tenebrarum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Sam, i only refer to the Commitments of Traders report , which concerns the positioning of participants in the stock index futures. these data are released once a week, with a 3 day lag on the cftc web site. cftc.gov equity short positions are indeed released with such a lag as to be worthless by the time one gets the data. same goes for NYSE member buying/selling, as well as NYSE member&specialist short positions. also, something generally overlooked about the overall equity short position extant in the market is the influence of stock splits on the absolute number. the headline 'short interest at a new record' is often found to be flawed in this respect...it almost never means that the dollar value of short interest is at a new record, and it says nothing about the relationship between short interest and total outstanding market cap. i mention this in order to point out that one has to do a more than cursory analysis of the data for it to be of value.