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29 Stocks Traders Are Shorting Like Crazy

In our latest list of stocks traders are shorting like crazy, some popular targets have fallen off.…

Rob Wile   


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10 highly shorted stocks are soaring as Reddit traders wage war against top Wall Street hedge funds

A herd mentality led by Reddit's 3 million-member Wall Street Bets forum sparked an epic rally in t…

Matthew Fox   


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The GameStop strategy that outsmarted Wall Street, plus the heavily shorted stocks that could be squeezed higher next

Reddit day traders turned the stock market on its ear last week by pumping stocks like GameStop to …

Joe Ciolli   


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29 Stocks That Traders Are Shorting Like Crazy

The names themselves will probably seem familiar — a clothing chain that just can't catch a break, …

Rob Wile   


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The 25 Stocks Investors Are Shorting Like Crazy

High on this list is Herbalife, the multi-level direct marketer of diet supplement which has been t…

Rob Wile   


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The hedge fund that lost nearly $7 billion betting against stocks like GameStop is raising cash for a new long-only fund

Melvin is raising money for a fund that bets stocks will rise, not fall, in a move away from the st…

Shalini Nagarajan   


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Short selling is a high-risk but high-reward trading strategy that profits from a stock price's fall

Short selling involves investors selling stocks they've borrowed, aiming to buy them back later for…

Clint Proctor   


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Short-sellers in Europe get the green light as coronavirus bans on betting against stocks are lifted

The ban on short selling was put in place in March as the coronavirus pandemic roiled global market…

Carmen Reinicke   


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Tesla short-sellers have lost more than $39 billion betting against the stock in 2020

$35 billion worth of Tesla shares remain shorted by bearish investors, far outpacing the roughly $1…

Matthew Fox   


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Tesla is close to becoming the first stock with a $20 billion short bet against it

"If Tesla's stock price continues to trend upward, we expect even more short covering as mark-to-ma…

Carmen Reinicke   


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Billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya says he closed his GameStop position after the stock's latest surge

Palihapitya said the trade was a learning experience, as he gained a front row seat to the thought …

Matthew Fox   


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BioCryst surges 30% to a 5-year high as Redditors declare 'BioWar' against short-sellers

Shares of BioCryst Pharmaceuticals soared to a five-year high as some Redditors call it "the most u…

Isabelle Lee   


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Traders betting against Tesla are down more than $25 billion this year amid the stock's record-breaking rally

Tesla is still the largest short in the US market, with $21.31 billion in short interest and 10.65 …

Carmen Reinicke   


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These 7 Reddit stock darlings are cratering as brokerages restrict buying in hot names

Amid Thursday's decline, Twitter's @WSBChairman tweeted to his more than half a million followers, …

Matthew Fox   


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Practices that enable short-selling could become more transparent under a new SEC rule in response to GameStop mania

Securities lenders would have to report material information on loans within 15 minutes of the tran…

Natasha Dailey   


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From AMC to Bed Bath & Beyond, the market's most-shorted stocks are rallying as Reddit day-traders pile in

A short squeeze is when short-sellers are forced to buyback the stock to close out their losing pos…

Matthew Fox   


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Tesla short-sellers have lost $18 billion this year on the stock's 230% spike

As much as 43% of Tesla short-seller losses occurred in just over five weeks, according to data fro…

Carmen Reinicke   


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Tesla short-sellers lost $38 billion throughout the automaker's colossal 2020 rally

Short interest more than halved throughout the year, as Tesla's skyrocketing stock price drove shor…

Ben Winck   


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Wall Street heavyweights profited as the market melted down in February after getting private warnings from the Trump administration, a new report says

The hedge-fund titan David Tepper received word of the White House's caution on February 26. The ne…

Ben Winck   


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This Is Why Shorting Stocks Is So Brutal

Whether you short a stock that costs $1 or $1000, your short position can only make you 100%. If so…

Myles Udland