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Another Epic Squeeze: "Most Shorted" Soar Over 3% Off Today's Lows
While the S&P 500, Dow, and Trannies remain in the red (just), the meltup off the opening lows is something to behold as Small Caps are now +1.3% on the day. The driver of this muppetry... a huge squeeze of "most shorted" stocks once again that took them from down over 2.5% at the open to higher by more than 0.5% now... Stocks, though, have decoupled from credit and USDJPY in this last vertical ramp.
This happened...
Thanks to this...
But the squeeze has got a bit over its skis relative to USDJPY
and credit...
Charts: Bloomberg
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Tuesday. This time Oil is coming down which might make slippery support.
Unreal. They can't even have one big down day. What a farce. The whole world is crumbling and we still keep hitting record highs everyday. I'm sure tomorrow china and Greece will be 'fixed' which should be good for another 35 points on the S&P. throw in a nice hit to get gold back below 1200. Party on
It's all Bullshit!!!
right now gubbermints all over the world are in a panic to buy usa equities at the all time highs. seriously, they are terrified prices will decline before they can go "all in".
What a shocker!
The dude abides
Mark it zero! [/Sobchak]
I assume this is now a hedgie collusion strategy...any good down day, find the top 10 shorted and just start piling in...get out tomorrow before lunch and enjoy your 10-20%?
No, it works pretty much every day.
the whole thing is utter BS. everybody on wall and broad knows the fed is still buying equities via citadel. wake me up 2030 when we get a real mkt back. until then i'll be posting my blog via camera on a stick.
You'll be sleeping longer than Rip Van Winkle waiting for a "real" market to return. They're NEVER givig it back. NEVER.
Amazing. Europe was down 1.5% <gasp!> this morning at 8:30 EDT which SURELY was to set the tone for today. Not so much.
Stoopid shorts fall for it every time. It's like watching the coyote chase the road runner. The outcome is already known, but he can't help but chase him.
they must work for the cia because apparently they love torture. I don't understand it either.
Are we at the part where the rock plows him another 20ft into the pavement?
looks like I picked the wrong day to short "casual dining" and pizza delivery stocks, AND stop sniffing glue
I didn't fall for it yesterday. Got my ass handed to me. Things are much better today.
The 'shorts' is also the Fed...what, like they're only long? They're playing all of it, doesn't cost them a dime either way.
It's like watching the coyote chase the road runner. The outcome is already known, but he can't help but chase him.
Coyote never falls until he looks down. Must be a life message in there somewhere.
It's like watching the coyote chase the road runner. The outcome is already known, but he can't help but chase him.
Coyote never falls until he looks down. Must be a life message in there somewhere.
85 point bounce in the Nasdaq in about 2.5 hours, efficient markets!
"And only the CIA waterboards."
Bwhahahahahahaha. Yeah, right. Talk about a choke hold. "Even the squid has a tentacle malfunction" would appear.
But it's because of all the good "torture" news, no?
Tuesdays are always the bounciest
Wimpy must be showing up with the burgers
Who and the fuck is shorting stocks in this market?
in?
Market.... Lol.
Love the bubble.
Don't FALL IN LOVE with the bubble though. Still too much debt and almost zero "taxpayer recovery."
Sorry but while riots are good for equities they're not good for recovery.
lol tyler what is this ?
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Zero_Hedge
Zero Hedge is a batshit insane Austrian economics-based finance blog run by a pseudonymous founder who posts articles under the name "Tyler Durden," after the character from Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk.
Tyler claims to be a "believer in a sweeping conspiracy that casts the alumni of Goldman Sachs as a powerful cabal at the helm of U.S. policy, with the Treasury and theFederal Reserve colluding to preserve the status quo." While this is not an entirely unreasonable statement of the problem, his solution actually mirrors the anatagonist inFight Club in that Tyler wants, per Austrian school ideas, to lead a catastrophic market crash in order to destroy banking institutions and bring back "real" free market capitalism.
The site posts nearly indecipherable analyses of multiple seemingly unrelated subjects to point towards a consistent theme of economic collapse any day now, and has accurately predicted 200 of the last 2 recessions. Tyler seems to repeat The Economic Collapse Blog's idea of posting blog articles many times a day and encouraging people to post it as far and wide as humanly possible. Tyler moves away from the format of long lists to write insanely dense volumes filled with (often contradicting) jargon that makes one wonder if the writers even know what the words actually mean. The site first appeared in early 2009, meaning that (given Tyler's habit of taking a shit on each and every positive data point), anyone listening to him from the beginning missed the entire 2009-2014 rally in the equities market.
The only writer conclusively identified is Dan Ivandjiiski, who conducts public interviews on behalf of Zero Hedge. The blog came online several days after he lost his job at Wexford Capital, a Connecticut-based hedge fund (run by a former Goldman trader). And proceeded to choose his pen name from a nihilistic psychotic delusion.
Zero Hedge is not quite the NaturalNews of economics, but not for want of trying.
Krugman is that you?
some intern at the fed who wants to eventually be chair.
Na I'm just aksing whatever that wiki has written is it true or some propaganda to discredit zerohedge . I just pasted some content from the link .
2 weeks 1 day......you obviously have a lot to learn.
Ofcourse (y)
Anyone can write whatever they want on Wiki.
Krugman, you sir are a tool!
haha
The decidedly misnamed "rational wiki" is itself a left-wing dingbat propaganda site that believes it is "funny" (it isn't).
Thanks for clarifying .
On how much volume is all of that happening again?
Looks like heavy morning volume and died out during the day. SP had heavy volume on the EOD dump.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/12/09/vbanker-impaled-railings-mary...
Those wanting to be amused (and who doesn’t?) should pull up a chart of today’s Russell using IWM (or your favorite symbol) and choose daily bars.
See that big, green monstrosity that traverses nearly the ENTIRE trading range going back to the Oct. 30 “Japan Gap”? Well, that’s just today (!!!) Even by RUT standards, have rarely seen such an insane ramp from a decidedly negative start, ~3% from the lows (with still 1 ½ hrs left …)
that is sick......sorry I looked.
looks like janet is buying IWM today.
Russell got up on Tuesday ! Frankenstein/Krugger's monster.
buy the fcking all time dip, get rich, shut up, and be happy. this is the new normal. stocks NEVER go down. invest now, and get rich, or shut the fuck up win you lose it all.. this is xmas time, santa claus is coming to town. football is huge. shut up. 'invest'
Dat Russell doe
why the fuck would ''investors'' keep shorting this shit show?
its so fucking rigged, they did the same thing yesterday, of course we will finish off the lows or even green.
since that mother fucking douchebag bullard spoke on october 15th, this shit has gone in 1 direction, but of course its totally normal.
it is not jus the most shorted names.
The IWM itself has short interest of 53%.
Besides, we dont really expect them to allow TSTHF during Xmas, do we?
and of course the biggest Dow component, VISA up $5 today from negative, only up $70 in the last six weeks, utter scam
We're down 3 percent on fundamentals, and the world downturn!
Oops... We're up 2 percent on fundamentals and the US recovery!
Is there anybody left who can't see the IWM only exists as a rigged casino to buy and sell underlying options to suckers stupid enough to think they can beat the house?
When you can make it move 5 percent on any day (and options by umpteen%) it's a license to print money (and steal mom and pop's retirement) indefinitely.
All dem "traders" just shrugging it off
Rebound rally: Stocks pare losses as traders shrug off global woesThe Dow and broader S&P 500 trimmed heavy losses Tuesday as concerns about Greece, China and other global economies faded.
Ouch. That hurt.
there's no one shorting the market, the fed. buying, and selling, they have to, others wise the daily market graphs would look like big U's, on days like today.