Short selling is a way to invest so that you profit when the price of a security — such as a stock — declines. It’s considered an advanced strategy that is probably best left to experienced investors ...

S3 Partner’s Ihor Dusaniwksy describes what short-selling numbers both long and short investors should pay attention to, and why you can’t really have short interest that’s more than 100% of a stock’s ...

Little Harbor Advisors will invest in external short-selling firms like Orso Partners and internal portfolio managers through ...

Short selling is an investment technique that generates profits when shares of a stock go down rather than up. In most cases, shorting stocks is best left to the professionals. In fact, it’s mostly ...

Short squeezes like what we saw this year with GameStop aren't new. But the evolution of the communication between investors and the trading platforms used to mobilize around the stock are--at least ...

Short selling has nothing to do with summer wear or workout gear. It's a common but controversial way of trading in financial markets. Let's say an investor decides a company's share price is ...

During the heyday of technical analysis from 1960 to 1985, some of the best indicators of market direction were the odd lot and public short selling ratios. High levels of short selling were positive ...

GameStop was a good candidate for a short—that is, a bet that its stock price would decline (a process I’ll describe shortly). And, indeed, if you had shorted GameStop a while back, you could have ...

Short squeezes are nothing new. But recent action in some heavily shorted stocks over the past weeks has brought the topic to the fore again. One thing many people ask is: How can a stock be more than ...