Are my suspicions about the red distribution, green accumulation and black shorting activity accurate?
If I recall the Quotetracker Help Manual correctly, The highlighted red trades in the T & S Window referred to prices which matched the Bid price. The Green Highlighted trades indicated prices where the trades matched at the Ask price. Black Highlighted trades fell somewhere in between (normally). With respect to Long or Short signals, interpreting these trades appears the result of more Art than Science. While you correctly observe FORD’s placement on the Reg SHO Threshold list, such a placement doesn’t eliminate ALL shorting. Without digressing into a discussion of naked shorting, some shorting of FORD still occurs (although not by retail traders [supposedly]). You should view the black highlighted trades simply as price improvement over the current bid / ask. One could infer, based on price trend and proximity of black highlighted trade to either bid or ask, a price improvement on a (accumulation) buy (or cover) or price improvement on a (distribution) sale (or short sale). Using Le
