Miracle Streak : Shorts are murdered by Nintendo 任天堂 as it ups for 3 straight days on Pokémon Pokopia, while S'pore's Sunright quietly claims a fresh record ! {13th Mar '26}
As the Pokémon franchise owner continues to forge further into 5 figures in Tokyo in defiance of war-ravaged markets, S'pore semiconductor tester Sunright, the 2nd highest earner thus far after a scorching '17-'18 ascent, is pared again to inch closer to the millennium + four centuries mark due next week!
Nintendo 任天堂 continues to rise against the gravity of war ravagings, averaging ¥10,199.14 trading 15,872,300 shares today, versus yesterday's ¥10,005.95 trading 18,848,400 shares [ including 1,489,700 matched 16 ticks above the last done price] & 32,505,800 shares traded on 3/11 after its latest Pokémon Pokopia game release stunned many by selling over 2.2 million units in the first 4 days! Short-sellers had more than tripled their bet against the stock rising by 6th March, to 1,471,600 shares while margin buying had declined 11.5% to 9,566,300 shares by that date. To give some context to these figures, note that the total short position has increased by 3,543,300 shares from 405,200 shares in the last 15 days & comprised about a quarter of Friday's traded volume versus 2% the day before the outbreak of Gulf hostilities.
Needless to say, it was a proverbially unlucky Friday the 13th for the gamer's shorties this week despite the Iran war pummeling most other stocks' prices, even as data updated till today[ the date of which conversely represents a lucky number for me] shows the margin buying/short-selling ratio for Nintendo [see graph above] has dropped almost to 2x, down from nearly 30x before the outbreak of the current conflict !!!









