Keep an eye on Research in Motion (BBRY) to potentially be the next highly-shorted stock to ignite higher out of a lower level pattern.
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Even before they could cash out, some business owners who sold out to Snyder shorted Snyder stock to lock in a price.
In fact, Jiau had no control or input into how much stock Barai and Freeman purchased, or shorted, in order to make their millions.
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The other day I had lunch with the hedge fund that told me July, 2010 that European sovereign debt and European bank stocks were to be shorted.
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Among other things, Hanke pointed to an unduly weak Japanese yen (it is since up 15% against the U.S. dollar), which effectively was being shorted by carry traders to buy speculative assets.
As a former nuclear submarine officer, he once awoke to alarms and flooding, which shorted out most circuits and caused the reactor to shut down (the backup diesel generators were offline for maintenance).
See what they are and discover several heavily shorted stocks that seem poised to move higher.
It was there that his son, Bill Fernandez, and his son's friend, Steve Wozniak, built the Cream Soda computer--the machine that might have changed history had it not shorted out during a presentation to a local reporter.
There have been attempts to create instruments that allow property to be hedged or shorted.
The stock exchanges publish daily lists on the most heavily shorted stocks, thus the hardest to borrow.
Figuring wheat had to back down, he shorted the market.
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The only drawback appears to be the players getting shorted out of their share of the money considering that the likelihood of injuries in a longer season would increase.
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The now permanent rule regarding naked short selling, called rule 204, requires traders to produce the stock that they shorted within 3 days.
With the pool of shorter-dated loans shrinking, there is a strong bid for shorted-dated paper from CLOs as they work to maintain compliance with weighted-average-life tests, traders note.
Traders had shorted more than 103 million shares of Bank of America as of mid-December, indicating a frenzy of arbitrage activity prior to the closing of the bank's acquisition of MBNA. Based on the number of shares shorted and Bank of America's average daily trading volume, it would take more than nine days to close out all those positions.
But the agency did move three years ago to put restrictions on short sales in certain heavily shorted stocks, such as Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia , Krispy Kreme , Overstock.com and Fairfax Financial .
To hedge its long position in the XRT, Goldman shorted the individual securities underlying the XRT.
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That means anyone who shorted--or bet the shares would fall and borrowed them to sell and buy back later, pocketing the difference--is losing money up to now.
The SEC has been trying to tackle the issue of naked, or manipulative, short-selling for over two years, tightening some of the rules around trading in heavily shorted stocks, but loosening restrictions in other areas--much to the frustration of critics.
The SEC's removal in 2007 of the uptick rule (which held that a stock couldn't be shorted unless it had gone up in price), as well as its failure to enforce the rule against naked short-selling (an investor is supposed to borrow the shares before he shorts them), increased pressure on beleaguered banks and insurance company equities.
Some 74% of sell-side analysts have a negative rating on Commerzbank, according to Dan Waterman of brokerage Aviate Global, and the stock has been heavily shorted by hedge funds.
The law was written for the benefit of Salt Lake City-based Overstock.com, a heavily shorted stock that has had persistently appeared on Nasdaq's lists of stocks that fail to deliver since Reg SHO was put in force.
Based on the number of shares shorted and Bank of America's average daily trading volume, it would take more than nine days to close out all those positions.
Those who are very aggressive traders have been long and short in the financials for months to the point that the Securities and Exchange Commission put out a list of companies that could not be shorted.
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