so where did the shorters go

So D'Alosio loves to parrott the story about how shortselling adds liquidity to the market and reduces spreads.

Yeah right.

So last Monday and Tuesday there were large amounts of short-selling in MOF and IOF.

On last Wednesday there was NONE.

At the moment, short-selling of these two securities are allowed only for privileged foreign racketeers, for "hedging" and "arbitrage" purposes.

I wonder what kind of inside information leads to a substantial requirement for hedging transactions last Monday and none at all on Wednesday ?