But Wall Street veteran Dan Strachman, whose books include The Long and Short of Hedge Funds, says a lot of big institutional investors probably invested in it, too.
In recent months, hedge fund critics have raised the issues of aggressive short-selling, hedge fund collusion with research analysts to manipulate a stock to their benefit, and short-sellers who skirt rules on stock settlement and clearing to make profits.
In fact, Green Mountain has been pressured by short sellers since hedge-fund manager David Einhorn of Greenlight Capital questioned company business practices last month.
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This new shareholding majority comprises a rich and flourishing taxonomy of investors: income turtles, value fish, growth hounds, short worms, hedge caterpillars, option rabbits, day-trading bumblebees, and so on.
For example, the SEC alleges that ThinkStrategy reported a 2008 return of 22.6% for its Capital Fund-A, a long-short market neutral hedge fund, when the actual performance was -77.9%.
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He sat next to his right-hand man at Goldman, Gary Cohn, and in the same section as the short-selling hedge fund manager Jim Chanos, Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond and Nasdaq head Bob Greifeld.
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This analysis would suggest that any institutions who are long Yahoo and short Yahoo Japan as a hedge are probably wise to cover their short.
The sector is underweighted in Guy's traditional funds and is an important short position for the hedge fund.
So we have stock long-short, commodity long-short, managed futures, currency long-short, real estate hedge, and a global bond hedge.
After all, they stand as high valuation properties that hedge funds short axiomatically if they believe we're in a bear market.
Driving the reduction in hedge fund short trading is the escalating cost of selling stock short in the last few years.
You warehouse to build in resiliency and hedge against short-term price swings.
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More emerging market bonds in the hands of long-term investors, instead of the more short-term oriented hedge funds, should mean less volatility.
Instead I constantly read the work of bears like the hedge fund short-seller Jim Chanos, to see if they see something that I miss.
Traders looking to hedge a short position on the networking sector might consider a May 40 call to take advantage of HRS's momentum and bearish sentiment backdrop.
Shares swung between gains and losses after Chairman and CEO Michael Johnson led a presentation mean to debunk the short case presented by hedge fund Bill Ackman in December.
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Defending itself from the short campaign waged by hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, Herbalife is getting in bed with a big-time investor on the other side of the trade.
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Louisiana is home to approximately 100 shareholders in Sedona, a Pennsylvania software company whose stock has been pummeled in the last six years, it contends because of manipulative short-selling by hedge funds and collusive brokers.
It is possible to trade exchange-traded funds both from the long side and the short side and to hedge portfolio positions without the need to track every tick of the market every minute of the day.
The short thesis rests on the notion that the FTC has been asleep at the switch, missed a massive fraud for over three decades, and will shortly awaken (at the behest of hedge fund short seller) to shut down the Company.
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After another sharp drop in financial stocks Wednesday and suggestions by a top Wall Street executive that share prices were being manipulated by short sellers, the Securities and Exchange Commission will try to force hedge funds to disclose their short positions.
This could mean short sellers are using the stock to hedge a long bet elsewhere, or could also mean that short sellers believe the price of the stock will decline.
Gradient mainly sells its research to money management outfits, including hedge funds and short-sellers.
Today, this hedge fund is short the stock market indexes of the European nations most suffering like France, Italy and Spain.
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Traders said that hedge funds and short-term individual investors were the key players, with trading strategies focused on Tokyo stocks and the yen.
Compared with private-equity funds, hedge funds are short-term vehicles from which investors can readily withdraw their capital, usually at least once a year.
The agency accused the firm of arranging a deal with a hedge fund to create a pool of mortgage securities the hedge fund could short against.
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But even some bulls warn that uneven economic data, the sharp rise in U.S. and Japanese stocks and increased interest by short-term investors including hedge funds could pave the way for more-volatile trading.
Now the SEC said it might repropose amendments to the so-called options market-maker exemptions, which allow options firms to hold open short positions in stocks to hedge their options positions in ways that aren't allowed for other traders.
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