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Another Bad Week For Hedge Funds
With hedge funds the most aggregate short since the peaks in 2007/8 and any long/short fund struggling to eke out anything but losses, this week's epic surge in the prices of the "most shorted" stocks confirms once again that the "dash for trash" is alive and well. Buying the "most shorted" stocks has been a massively outperforming strategy for well over a year, and as we noted here, the trend of major outperformance of 'weak balance sheet' firms over 'strong balance sheet' firms continues. The results... "most shorted" stocks +5.1% from last week's lows - more than doubling the S&P's 2% gains...
Weak balance sheets "winning" over strong balance sheets...
As shorts pile up to record highs...
Which results in this...
So we are back to BTFD, and make sure when you BTFD you BTFWSOT (worst shit out there)
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Yellen is laughing it's ass off every time it pulls the football away from the Charlie Brown shorts.
Well they get the two part of the two-and-twenty no matter how shitty they perform. So who has the last laugh?
Well they get their two anyway, without returns there is no twenty.
Edit: Unless you're Corzine then it's 2 and 120%.
"and jail time."
shorting anything has been a fools errand going on 5 years now. with no recovery in sight...not now or ever it would seem, at some point "bug meet windshield" as there is no great truth in economics than "it is cyclical."
The squeeze that chills? May may still go away - there's 7 days in May (left).
Its almost time for the end of the day/week ramp up. are you ready?
Is the market even open today? I can't tell....
Well, gotta get the sheeple feelin good before the holiday weekend so they over consume freely!
Jom Ricktards says you should have long-short funds in addition to your fine art collection.
so, where is the list of most shorted stocks?
It's important to be long bonds over the weekend in case there are geopolitical issues and it's important to be long stocks over the weekend in case there are not geopolitical issues.
Besides, all geopolitical issues are always good news for stocks and bonds anyway. Max complacency there's nothing possible to worry about ever again.
stupid shorts
rule #1) don't fight the (zirped up) fed
stupid shorts
rule #2) don't fight the (zirped up) fed
rule #3) don't forget rule 1 and 2.
Shorting's actually kind of unpatriotic if you think about it - it's like saying you don't believe in America.
This would be funny if it were not believed by so many retards. Short sellers driving down the price means stocks can be purchased at a lower price and thus a higher dividend yield. The government hates all of us, so the government insists on keeping stock prices high and dividends low. The lack of dividend yield and lack of interest rate yield is destroying what's left of the wealth held by retired people.
dividends are starting to rise.
the irony of course is that makes the pain for the shorts all the better.
of course the companies that have slashed their dividends (cough, cough GE cough cough) have never recovered. that strikes me as a good shorting opportunity has "it's only lost 67% of its value as the market overall keeps hitting one record high after another and bond yields plunge to all time record lows as well."
forget just energy companies but the entire energy complex has never done so well...anywhere, ever.
"they're so rich they can afford to allow the Tesla Model S and X to be mass produced."
I do find the huge explosion in the price of nickel to interesting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_mine_project
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_mining_in_Michigan
"pure copper came from the deposits in Michigan." to call that "rare" is an understatement. Again "one should research the origin of the moon" if you want to start figuring out how precious metals in already refined form can possibly even exist.
Just a theory of course...but the refined copper sure wasn't. "Million ton nuggets" existed...sitting right on top of the land no less.
Same as those killjoys who punt 'don't come' in craps.
Seriously, or is this sarcasm?
It should be noted that when a market falls and shorts cover their position to take profits they in effect support the market. A market without shorts becomes very vulnerable.
I still hold the firm belief it is the Fed itself shorting most of it so they can provide a way to squeeze higher. Why wouldn't they? None of it costs them anything at all.
Or else it's the fed reading the most-shorted list and making sure they don't actually go down, since down is simply not allowed.
I've concluded that it will take a double blackswan-like event to send the markets down in a correction. Anything other than that will be seen as a dip to be bought. I know that seems almost too obvious by now, but it is worth repeating as we are asked to look at one chart after another of how screwed up the current financial situation (e.g. leverage, P/Es, number of short positions, VIX, credit, yields, etc and so on...)
Yeah - it's like we're waiting on a baby Godzilla to be born.....waiting, (it's gonna fall)...waiting....
I conclude they'll pull the rug out whenever they've planned to, same as 2008 staged robbery.
Agreed. The only questions are do they want to make the affirmative action clown look good until he's out of office? Or do they want the war party back in power after 2016?
Where is Nassim Taleb?
The Fed erected the tallest house of cards! Wait for the wind!
All together now...
"I see a black swan rising,
I see trouble on the way,
I see earthquakes and lightnin'
I see those bad times today.
Don't trust the Fed tonight
Well it's bound to take your life,
There's a black swan on the rise."
Hedge funds can eat my dirty shorts. Punk ass punks. Man, I just want to go to Wall Street and mug some trader/hedgie who is looking sharp in his "Batemans". Ok, no, just go hit a bong instead.
What crisis? I am medicated.
How do you program algos in a market which opens and remains there.....for hours?
To say the market is rigged is an understatement. After over 30 years of trading commodities I will flat out state without any reservations that lies and manipulation run rampant. If you think anyone is looking out for the small independent trader you are wrong. An unholy alliance of the Federal Reserve, the government, and the too big to fail has left the rest of us in a precarious position.
For the big boys, its insider information and computer trading, this includes computing patterns that exploit where stops are placed, this improves their ability to wash the weak out of their positions. The bottom-line is that the higher the market goes the more vulnerable it becomes to a major collapse and sudden downward move. More on this subject in the article below.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2013/07/markets-more-lies-and-munipulatio...