From the Desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza
Names with high short interests continue to work in this environment as the bears struggle to take down even the worst stocks.
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 this 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:
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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.
Click the following links to see the universe sorted by highest short interest and days-to-cover.
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