The stock market is in the middle of one of its fiercest multi-day rallies in recent history.
Since last week, there has been a notable expansion in breadth, with areas like small caps, regional banks, biotechs, and speculative growth joining the bull market party.
Long story short, investors are beginning to move out on the risk spectrum and embrace some of the riskiest stocks the market has to offer.
Another way to see this offensive positioning is by analyzing the performance of the stocks that investors are betting against the most.
Names with sky-high short interests continue to work in this environment.
As such, it's time to run it back with another Freshly Squeezed report.
Here's how we do things...
We find the most heavily shorted stocks in the market. We wait for momentum to come into these names. And then we ride them higher as the bears get squeezed.
We got new short data last week, so let's dive in and talk about it.
Our scan is quite simple. It is designed to identify stocks with the most aggressive short positions.
When a stock is shorted, it means incremental buyers are waiting in the wings to close out their bearish bets.
We love this, as new buyers are the one true catalyst for higher prices.
When shorts are proven wrong, they become buyers of the stock. In many cases, this happens as momentum flows into these names and fuels massive short-covering rallies.
For this reason, we pair short-interest data with short-term momentum overlays, as this combination is needed to spark the moves we’re looking for.
Here's the latest:
Our Freshly Squeezed table contains stocks that have a short interest greater than 12% and a market capitalization greater than $500M. The universe is then sorted by 10-day stock price performance.
