Last week, we released a Freshly Squeezed report detailing long setups in some of the market's most heavily shorted stocks.
This week, we got fresh short sale data from FINRA as well as fresh breakouts from a growing list of stocks in our universe.
We thought it would be irresponsible not to do a follow-up report covering them.
This is just the environment we're in.
Here's what we're doing about it.
Our scan is quite simple. It is designed to identify stocks with the highest short positions. When a stock is heavily shorted, 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. Many times, as this happens, momentum comes 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 list:
Our Freshly Squeezed table contains stocks that have a short interest greater than 15% and a market capitalization greater than $.5B. The universe is then sorted by 1-month change.
