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More Short Covering Exaggerates Solar Rallies (TAN, FSLR, SPWR, ENER, TSL, WFR)

Posted: February 9, 2012 at 3:10 pm

Solar stocks are on fire.  Still, they are so far down from a year ago that celebrating the move it difficult to do.  To show just how powerful this move up ...
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Tracking The highly Unusual Short Interest Trends (ALU, BAC, DNDN, DMND, FSLR, F, GMCR, HGSI, LNKD, NFLX, RIMM, SIRI)

Posted: January 26, 2012 at 10:08 am

Cult stocks and controversial stocks often have an unusually high short interest.  What is amazing is that the bets against these companies sometimes go off the charts.  We have tracked ...
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Short Sellers Increase Bets Across the Board

Posted: January 26, 2012 at 6:33 am

For the first time in a long time, short sellers have increased their bets that the stock prices of most large companies and in most large sectors will fall. The ...
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Short Sellers Help Push Dendreon Higher

Posted: January 6, 2012 at 6:39 am

Dendreon (NASDAQ: DNDN) soared almost 40% in value, or $3.02 a share, in active trading on Thursday after announcing that fourth-quarter revenue from its Provenge prostate-cancer vaccine would exceed earlier ...
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Short Sellers Hit Attack Mode in SIRIUS XM (SIRI)

Posted: December 12, 2011 at 10:59 am

SIRIUS XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) is an interesting stock in an interesting space in time.  After two big positive analyst calls just last week, it is interesting to see ...
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Unusual Short Interest Trends In Key Stocks (AMZN, AAPL, DMND, FMCN, GMCR, GRPN, INTC, NFLX, RIMM)

Posted: November 28, 2011 at 10:46 am

The mid-November NASDAQ short interest may have been lost in the Thanksgiving and Black Friday shuffle, but there were some very interesting and in some cases startling short interest factoids ...
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Should Jefferies Be Able to Sue Over Malicious Attacks? (JEF)

Posted: November 21, 2011 at 2:45 pm

The attack on Jefferies Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF) is unfortunately reminiscent of larger implosions of firms formerly named Lehman and Bear Stearns.  It almost does not seem to matter what Jefferies ...
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Groupon Gets Analyst ‘Sell’ Rating & Options Trading (GRPN)

Posted: November 14, 2011 at 9:19 am

Groupon, Inc. (NASDAQ: GRPN) is trading lower this morning.  What we knew going into this week was that Monday would mark the start of stock options trading in Groupon.  This ...
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Short Interest In Troubled Companies Rises (C, SIRI, LNKD, WFC)

Posted: November 13, 2011 at 9:47 am

After a period in which short sellers backed out of stocks in troubled companies, the have rushed into them again. The short interest in Research-In-Motion (NYSE: RIMM), battered by competition ...
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Green Mountain Earnings: A Short Seller’s Revenge (GMCR)

Posted: November 9, 2011 at 4:35 pm

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. (NASDAQ: GMCR) had a rough day with the equity markets today posting a drop of more than 4.6%, but the stock has been under constant ...
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David Versus Goliath at Green Mountain (GMCR)

Posted: November 8, 2011 at 12:17 pm

Short sellers are an interesting lot, particularly when they go public and are vocal against a company.  In many cases they can rack some serious damage to a share price.  ...
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Shorts Exit Weak Shares (EK, AMR, BP, LVLT)

Posted: October 26, 2011 at 6:28 am

Short sellers moved out of stocks that have fallen recently. Perhaps they believe there will be a large rally in the market. There is little else to make the shares ...
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RIM Is No Carl Icahn Target (EP, RIMM, YHOO)

Posted: October 17, 2011 at 12:57 pm

Carl Icahn was on CNBC this afternoon talking up his position gains from the El Paso Corporation (NYSE: EP).  The CNBC team asked him point blank if Icahn was targeting ...
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Green Mountain: Does David Einhorn Understand Beans? (GMCR, SBUX, JOE, S, BBY, GM, AAPL)

Posted: October 17, 2011 at 12:41 pm

David Einhorn of Greenlight is well-known in investing, and not just for being long.  This is called whale-watching.  His comments today at the Value Investing Congress are single-handedly taking down ...
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Expected Upside Gains for Leading Retailers (COST, WMT, TGT, M, JWN, KSS, BBY)

Posted: October 14, 2011 at 3:01 pm

The retail sales growth outlook for the coming holiday season has been cut to around 3%, only half the growth retailers saw in the 2010 holiday season. Of course, last ...
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