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Short Interest Slides As Market Squeeze Takes Victims
A week ago we showed NYSE short interest, which in the aftermath of the massive slide in the EURUSD (the only real driver of beta these days, and with correlation at 1.000, also alpha), had soared to...
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Forget The NYSE Shorts, And Be Very Afraid Of The Resumption In Bearish EUR...
Just when one thought the oversold status of the all important Euro (by way of the market defining EURUSD) may have peaked and short covering resumed, we once again find that the technical reason (not...
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NYSE Short Interest Drops To Two Month Low As Weak Hands Have Been Squeezed Out
It was bound to happen: after hitting a two year high recently at (adjusted) 15.3 billion shares, total NYSE short interest, which failed to be satisfied with a violent market plunge and instead got...
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No New Shorts In Early November As NYSE Short Interest Drops To 3 Month Low
Following the market drop in early November, it was widely expected by most, us included, that stock shorts would pile in once again, only to be burned by moves like today's, which is more of an...
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Plunge In NYSE Short Interest Explains Recent Market Rally
UPDATE: As an observation, QQQ Short-Interest is at 11 year lows (January 2001) Curious what has provoked a vicious year end (and 2012 year beginning) Santa Rally, which until today had seen the...
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Market Shorts At 4 Year Lows, In Hibernation For Second Straight Month
Following the unleashing of $2.5 trillion in central bank liquidity, market shorts have predictably gone into hibernation, and as the just released NYSE short interest update confirms, the total number...
View ArticleBillish. Bearish. Brokish!
Though the market keeps raging to the upside, I keep seeing bearish signs in market sentiment – the VIX is hitting multi-year lows, NYSE short interest is hitting a four-year low, the ratio of insider...
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NYSE Short Interest Rises To 2012 Highs
On the surface, the fact that NYSE short interest was just reported today to have risen to 13.1 billion shares as of April 30 could be troubling for the bears, as this just happens to be the highest...
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At The End Of May NYSE Short Interest Soared To November 2011 Levels, Leading...
Wondering just what precipitated the near-record short covering squeeze in the first week of June on nothing but speculation of a Spanish bailout (hence materialized, and proven to be a massive...
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And The Reason For Today's Bathsalts Rally Is...
... Nothing more (or less) than NYSE short interest as of June 15 (at 14.7 billion shares) soaring to the highest since October 2011, just before the mega ramp on the previously mentioned October 26,...
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NYSE Short Interest Plunges By Most Since January, As Equity Outflows Hit One...
Those hoping that the recent short squeeze which took the market to just why of its 2012 highs will repeat itself may be disappointed, because according to the NYSE, Short Interest as of June 29...
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NYSE Short Interest Drops To 5 Month Low
It is by now well-known that the general level of the stock market no longer has any impact on retail flows in or out of stocks, having become a one way street out of equities beginning roughly six...
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NYSE Short Interest Plunges To March 2012 Levels
As if the already documented record $220 billion year end equity market injection courtesy of deposits (being used by bank prop arms to invest in risk assets) was not enough to send markets into...
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NYSE Margin Debt Rises To Fresh Five Year High As Short Interest Slide Continues
With the Fed no longer even pretending it is not all about the stock market, where some mysterious trickle down force is supposed to boost the economy the second the S&P hits new all time highs,...
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Deutsche Bank Hopes "Not All Margin Calls Come At Once In Case Of A Sell-Off"
A recent survey of asset managers globally, managing USD 27.4 trillion between them, found that 78% of defined-benefit plans would need annual returns of at least 5% per year to meet their commitments,...
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NYSE Short Interest Surges To Record, Pre-Lehman Level
There are two ways of looking at the NYSE short interest, which as of September 15 surged by 1.4 billion to 18.4 billion shares or just shy of the level hit on July 31, 2008: Either a central bank...
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"The Squeeze Has Run Its Course" - According To BofA "The Rally Needs Central...
Several weeks ago, we observed that in the aftermath of the volatility surge in the late summer, NYSE short interest had soared to what was essentially the highest level on record, rising above 18.3...
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The Three Things Goldman's Clients Were Most Worried About This Week
Following the perfectly expected intervention of not one but two central banks last week, which came at just the right time to crush the last of the "weak hand" shorts (recall three weeks ago we...
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S&P Set For Biggest Ever Monthly Point Gain As Central Banks Go All In
In the beginning of the month, when we showed that the NYSE short interest has risen to the highest level since July 2008, we said that this indicator either means that the market is poised for a crash...
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NYSE Short Interest Nears Record, Pre-Lehman Level
In the last two months, NYSE Short Interest has risen 4.5%, back over 18 billion shares near the historical record highs of July 2008 (and up 7 of the last 9 months). There are two very different...
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