Ann: Quarterly Activities Report, page-16

The graph shows the reported long shorts, below shows the amount of short selling intraday, which may be closed out before the end of the day.... this is death by a 1000 cuts, and takes advantage of the trend and reinforces the trend. I can't imagine that this could be done easily by a person, but an algorithm which can see every trade microseconds before every other computer can do this by front-running. That's why day trading is so tough these days .... the algo's anticipate your every move.
Look at the column below "shorts as % of volume". I suspect now that SLR has been established as "oversold", TPTB will go heavy long and till it reaches an "overbought" technical status, then the shorting process starts again - ' wash, rinse, repeat ' .... " it's not personal, its just business ".
Next week will see a sharp SP rebound as analysts give their stamp of approval to the quarterly, most having a 60c+ valuation, albeit somewhat reduced from former levels.

MOST RECENT SHORT SALES

Data graphed above represents aggregate short sales, provided by ASIC with a lag of 4 trading days (T+4). The ASX releases non-aggregated daily short sales figures which can be used as an indication of short sales activity within this 4 day window. These figures are released by the ASX daily and cover the previous days activity. This activity is listed in the table below, and is usually updated at 11:30am Sydney time. The table includes the most recent 20 ASX short sales updates for this stock. Alert symbols indicate the stock has been shorted more than 0.5% on the day.

	Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5	Column 6
1	Date	Gross shorts 1	Issued capital	% Capital shorted 2	Trade volume 3	Shorts as % of volume
2	Thu 19th Oct, 2017	251,768	503,771,434	0.05%	5,658,856	4.45%
3	Wed 18th Oct, 2017	70,607	503,771,434	0.01%	3,383,738	2.09%
4	Tue 17th Oct, 2017	148,395	503,771,434	0.02%	2,240,805	6.62%
5	Mon 16th Oct, 2017	16,616	503,771,434	0.00%	1,791,638	0.93%
6	Fri 13th Oct, 2017	181,370	503,771,434	0.03%	743,838	24.38%
7	Thu 12th Oct, 2017	148,989	503,771,434	0.03%	719,262	20.71%
8	Wed 11th Oct, 2017	42,001	503,771,434	0.00%	1,384,401	3.03%
9	Tue 10th Oct, 2017	140,501	503,771,434	0.02%	701,943	20.02%
10	Mon 9th Oct, 2017	398,744	503,771,434	0.07%	1,411,606	28.25%
11	Fri 6th Oct, 2017	143,119	503,771,434	0.02%	900,641	15.89%
12	Thu 5th Oct, 2017	325,873	503,771,434	0.06%	1,351,516	24.11%
13	Wed 4th Oct, 2017	272,292	503,771,434	0.05%	585,764	46.48%
14	Tue 3rd Oct, 2017	245,845	503,771,434	0.04%	1,762,803	13.95%
15	Mon 2nd Oct, 2017	110,728	503,771,434	0.02%	1,902,322	5.82%
16	Fri 29th Sep, 2017	94,380	503,771,434	0.01%	1,023,858	9.22%
17	Thu 28th Sep, 2017	243,412	503,771,434	0.04%	679,332	35.83%
18	Wed 27th Sep, 2017	91,274	503,771,434	0.01%	1,103,739	8.27%
19	Tue 26th Sep, 2017	76,840	503,771,434	0.01%	1,211,196	6.34%
20	Mon 25th Sep, 2017	285,816	503,771,434	0.05%	2,226,490	12.84%
21	Fri 22nd Sep, 2017	367,611	503,771,434	0.07%	2,231,402	16.47%

¹ Reported gross short sales. ² % Capital reported as short sold (non aggregated). ³ Total stock trade volume.