mrrobots2

I was puzzled with the amount of actual long share ownership as well. I took some of the 13F filings reported from whalewisdom and played with some of the numbers to make sense of it.

https://i.imgur.com/aprY1AB.png

Working backwards from the number of shares short, 61.78M as of Jan 15, that means there was a set of investors already long 61.78M and were lending out shares, and if the short sellers sold them to open, another set of 61.78M are being held somewhere else, i.e. at a minimum 123.56M shares could be long.

considering just last reported institutions + top holders, that's 104.19M shares, leaving at a maximum 19.4M shares owned by retail... If all of WSB just bought 5 shares that'