Anyone else notice how dark and foreboding this white house logo is
exactly, couldn't put a name on it but jail fits
ZHA Major Bank Publishes A List Of Shorts That Will Surge Next
First, we'd like to pat ourselves on the back a little.
While most of the US daytrading class is now in a furore over the "discovery" that most shorted stocks tend to outperform - to put it mildly - when a bunch of autists rams illiquid, heavily shorted names up the collective behind of hedge funds which "legally" collude during idea dinners to put on a basket of shorts, hence why stocks like GME can end up with a synthetic short that is higher than the entire float, none of this should be news to regular readers, as the theme of going long the most shorted names is one we first presented and discussed as far back as 2013:
Presenting The Best Trading Strategy In This Market: Buy The Most Hated Stocks, Short The Most Widely Held
We then reiterated this strategy in 2014…
The Most Beloved, And Hated, Hedge Fund Stocks Are…
… 2015…
Stocks Soar To Best Week In A Year On "Mother Of All Short Squeezes"
Presenting The Top 50 Hedge Fund Longs And Shorts
… 2016…
After Three Years, This Remains The Best Trading Strategy
… 2017
These Are The Top 50 Hedge Fund Long And Short Positions
… 2019
These Are The 50 Most Popular Hedge Fund Longs And Shorts
… 2020
Top Hedge Fund Longs Suffer Historic Crash As Top Shorts Outperform… And Much More Pain Is Coming
And so on.
It took banks about 6 years after our first post on this matter to admit we were right and that going long "the most shorteds" is not only the most profitable strategy but also the most successful one in the past decade; in Aug 2019 Bank of America showed that "buying the 10 most underweight stocks and selling the 10 most overweight stocks by active funds has generated alpha in the past years with the exception of 2017"…
moar at
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/major-bank-publishes-list-shorts-will-surge-next
https://archive.is/wip/sesm3