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Money never sleeps: Gain insights into market sentiment with short sale data
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Identify Opportunities with Short Sale Analysis

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Meta Moo joined discussion · Aug 11, 2022 07:11
Hi, mooers!
After learning the short sale data in the post: "Gain insights into market sentiment with short sale data", I bet you are looking for some case studies. Here they are.
Have you heard of the $GameStop (GME.US)$ short-selling incident? Follow us to see what happened!
GameStop is an American video game retailer. GME shares traded at around $20 per share at the beginning of Jan 2021. When Jan ended, shares closed up more than 1500%. How did this happen?
At the end of Dec 2020, GME's stock price was weak. Its short interest exceeded 100% of its available shares, indicating that bearish investors had sold more than the existing shares in the market.
On Dec 31, the short position ratio exceeded 100%.
On Dec 31, the short position ratio exceeded 100%.

On Jan 19, 2021, Citron Research, a stock research firm, released a short-selling report predicting the stock value would decrease to $20 per share.
Surprisingly, many retail investors flocked to buy GME's shares instead of selling shares, driving up the price. The sudden surge in demand sent the price even higher, and then a short squeeze happened. On Jan 22, 2021, the total short-selling volume peaked, and the stock skyrocketed by 51%.
On Jan 22, the total short volume reached its peak.
On Jan 22, the total short volume reached its peak.

Subsequently, GME's stock price continued to climb, and the short sale ratio plummeted. It means that short sellers were buying stocks to close their positions, further stimulating stock prices to rise. By Jan 29, the short sale ratio dropped to 30.7% with a closing price of $81.25, almost eight times where it was ten days ago.
On Jan 29, the short interest dropped to 30.7%.
On Jan 29, the short interest dropped to 30.7%.

Do you have a better understanding of short squeeze now? Let's look at one more case.
Identify Opportunities with Short Sale Analysis

The chart shows that the stock price was in a downtrend before Dec 16 and then hit its near-term bottom with a sudden surge in short sale volume around Dec 16. After that, the short sale volume decreased, and the stock price rose. Two reasons may contribute to the increase in price. The first one is the investors' bullish sentiment. The second is the demand for buying stocks to close the previous short positions.
The stock price trend is negatively correlated with the short position ratio. However, the correlation is not absolute, as many factors affect the stock price. It is impossible to judge the stock price trend by relying only on a single indicator.
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  • Milk The Cow : Cool [undefined], u learned something new.
    So it's all about short-interest % to look out for short squeeze [undefined].

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  • 102935791 Milk The Cow : hhhhh

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  • ur wifes boyfriend : the sec report to Congress and the report released by Congresswoman Walters are two different reports. The Short interest that was available to retail at the time was not even close it was over 100%.
    I'm also very positive that the short interest is nowhere near what it is when it is known to the public.

    and when the price starts to go up on a short squeeze that was going on with AMC and GameStop plus bby etc. there was a buy button removal. not too long ago the same thing happened in London for a metal material and the buy button was removed.

    hdk which was running up in the market was not halted or button removed because the retailers were not the ones buying the stock as much as compared to institutions. GameStop and AMC were halted earlier this week and the price went down and it was suppressed I'm going up.

    I ask myself is there going to be a short squeeze ever again for retail investors or will the market makers stop it in its tracks by halting or removing the buy button. sending orders to the dark pools over 50 sometimes 60% of the day's volume so it doesn't have any impact on the price upward movement. and the short volume is constant and usually rising while the shorts available to land land out magically appear everyday at different times in the day and night.

    There is obviously something not being disclosed and being purposely  hidden from the public. The DOJ have been busy prosecuting the securities fraud in the market as of late. so just because the ones in charge of all this are not getting in trouble now does that mean they will not be in a few years. your past will come and haunt you and you will pay for your crimes eventually. the way the market is set up and rigged against the retail investor has run its course and has caused financial destruction in our world economy.  The blame should be worldwide in China ,London and here.  

    so any public information that is allowed from the sho is not to be trusted or considered reliable.

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  • HengOngHuat888 : Short selling is so cool and unusual. The first time I witness is with GME and AMC. What a meme! Glad to witness such happenings in my life.

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  • Alvinnnnnnngenius : Where can I get info of short interest in moomoo?

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  • J Tan88 : When does short position need to close to cover ? Three months after short position was opened ?
    If not short positions can continue to hold , until the next margin call ?

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  • ankykong : it's interesting to see the charts and see exactly the impact we as retail investors have.

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  • Weicl : The first time I saw it was AMC.[undefined][undefined][undefined][undefined][undefined]

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  • 101494038 (佩施) : good

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