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S3: Wirecard short sellers suffer costly time-out


22 February 2019 New York
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

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The German financial regulator, Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin), has put Wirecard AG short sellers in a costly time-out, according to Ihor Dusaniwsky, managing director predictive analytics, S3 Partners.

Recently, BaFin short selling on Wirecard because its falling share price caused uncertainty in the market.

Dusaniwsky noted in his research that BaFins short sale prohibition turned the tables on short sellers, with no opportunity for them to continue beating down Wirecards stock price.

Meanwhile, unopposed long shareholders were able to drive up Wirecards stock price by 21.25 percent in just two days.

According to the research, the price move cost Wirecard short sellers most of their February profits, down $450 million in marktomarket losses on the 18th and 19th.

Shorts are now up only $20 million in marktomarket profits in February, $17 million yeartodate.

Depending on the Wirecard news over the next two months, Dusaniwsky said that we may see upward price pressure due to short covering and long buying.

This will be followed by even more of the same after 18 April if Wirecards accounting scandal proves to be a red herring, or an even greater wave of short selling if the accounting scandal is substantiated, he added.

Dusaniwsky cited: BaFin might have stabilised the German market, and Wirecard in particular,
over the short term, or they may have just closed the pressure valves and created the possibility of a flood of short selling in two months.

To add another twist, BaFin may choose to lift the Wirecard short selling ban early and leave both long and shortside traders scrambling to execute their strategies.

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