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Are These Your Shorts?

Short interest is at 2011 levels here. Need I remind you that we’re gently off the highs.

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Should you bears get spooked here, I weep for your future.

I bought DE calls, MEET shares, and added to CORT because I am conveniently informed.

OA

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88 comments

  1. yoshii11

    Interesting. Is the short interest chart the same for Russell and DJI? I’d look for that myself, if I knew where to pick up such a chart.

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  2. belzile

    Talking about shorts let see if they get their face ripped in BTH

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  3. UncleBuccs

    OA, CECO that you highlighted months ago is rocking. I’m still in it, and it looks like it might stick this time…

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    • yoshii11

      I see APOL has an April Fools Day earnings date.

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      • UncleBuccs

        Yoshii, let’s hope they don’t come out with a cruel joke of a report… On a side note, I can’t believe how many chumps at my workplace are pursuing a degree at the Univ. of Phoenix in hopes of getting into ‘management’ one day… There’s a bull market in fleecing the hopeful hopeless….always.

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        • TheHarper

          I’m trying hard to think of a good middle-east conflict reference here.

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        • Jolly

          What are you talking about buccs? If it’s good enough for Larry Fitzgerald of the Arizona Cardinals, it should be good for you.

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    • formergeek

      ESI trapping shorts maybe?

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  4. Jolly

    F the bears.

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  5. granpa

    @Jolly, I have shorts but am not offended by your statement because I also have longs. Until you learn how to use both sides of the Market to your advantage you will miss some opportunities. I am not a Bull or a Bear. I am a trader/investor.

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  6. heisenberg

    Jeff, what are your thoughts on BAC here?

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  7. bchu12

    GOGO and YGE has been the thorns in my side this year. but can’t seem to turn away.

    YGE i’m about flat now but was up big earlier in the yr.

    GOGO, lost everytime i traded it

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  8. lplongo

    Maybe crazy but bought more FENG Apr 12.5s

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  9. matt_bear

    what do you mean by conveniently informed with CORT?

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    • lplongo

      I thought he meant with respect to the market when I read that.

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    • BadBoy

      I bought CORT Apr $4 calls based on unusual options volume. 1700 May $4 and 4000 Apr $4 calls bought about an hour ago. I haven’t checked back to see if there has been more volume.

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    • Option Addict

      First, how did I do on the pic?

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      • matt_bear

        better. it appears a bottom has been put in and you’ve got a v-reversal going. let’s hope it’s not short term.

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        • Option Addict

          WTF?

          What are the guidelines I am to follow? I laughed out loud on this one.

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          • matt_bear

            the problem might be me. i’m very sarcasstic and have a (possibly) sick sense of humor. It takes real quality to move my emotions. I mean come on, just look at the “this is the end” video clip. A dime bag just isn’t going to satisfy a heroin addict.

            Your newest pic was a sharp v reversal off the low, don’t worry. The best part is his facial expression/eyes in the pic. I laughed. The wording of the title plays a good part too. It has to flow. It’s art, Jeff.

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  10. bullnbear

    OA, did I hear you are shorting FEYE on pops? full disclosure – I’m long commons and short calls against it

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  11. halloweenpleb

    no TPLM purchase?? i am eyeing it at 8.20 – 8.25. any thoughts?

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  12. inloworbit

    OA, you out of GOGO?

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  13. fifty2weekhi

    Jeff, what’s your plan with the hedges? What’s your conditions to take them off? TIA,

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    • Option Addict

      Have you hedged before?

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      • fifty2weekhi

        No. On my own I tend to be a perma bear. I need services like yours to make me go long on a runaway market. I never understand hedging, much the same way as I don’t understand mortgage if cash is of no object.

        I asked this question in the chatroom before: what’s the advantage of hedging vs. staying cash/reduce exposure? But I think it fell through the crack.

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  14. j livermore

    I just plowed back into GME. Fucker has got to break these chains soon.

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  15. ilene

    Watching HGG, FST, MACK, DNDN. $10 darlings with short interest over 20%. What do others think?

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  16. charlie

    OA – is YGE still the 2nd largest position in your port?

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  17. j livermore

    ZU seeking it’s revenge.

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  18. bchu12

    just flush already, dam market. seems like it just doesn’t want to hold up

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  19. bchu12

    wheres the bottom in biotech? wowzer

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  20. bood

    i like conveniently informed

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  21. formergeek

    Getting a little dicey here again…

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  22. og

    Thought I was going into the weekend feeling positive…

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  23. heisenberg

    All of a sudden can’t stop thinking disbelief…

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  24. bchu12

    think discouragement is right. i think all of us here are pretty fokin discouraged at this point

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  25. ecchymosis

    Does SINA need a word like turboaversion to describe its action?

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  26. malloyo

    Positive Thought S*O*D*A (camouflaged so the algos don’t target it) just keeps slowly climbing. Only up trade for APR I’ve got right now. Solid OA pick.

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  27. yoshii11

    11-12 or 13-14…
    http://monevator.monevator.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/funny-trader-emotions.jpg

    and peppered throughout the chart is “But first…let me take a #selfie”

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  28. bchu12

    if $IWM closes red again today, it will be 6 down days in a row. and today’s big reversal should raise a red flag

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    • formergeek

      Still above yesterdays low…

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      • bchu12

        i think the sell off from the gap is a bigger tell.

        STFD i guess is the new game in town

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        • formergeek

          We shall see, the battle rages on

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          • bchu12

            trust me, i hope im wrong but doesn’t look like it. the market action has been pretty defined this week.

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  29. bood

    odds for a nice flush of the toilet rising ?

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  30. formergeek

    Hard to get short when FXI +2% and EEM up also

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    • formergeek

      Somebody last week posted here or in AH about heavy selling in Brazil stocks, boy that was sure a false tell, wish i remembered who

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  31. danny1980

    Yolo SPY put today for a 250% gain. Went with the gap and trap philosophy on the trade. Thank god cause I really needed a win. Still down 2% for the year. I will get it back…

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  32. fryguy15

    $TSLA calls look cheap, no?

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  33. fryguy15

    Also, anyone still in MJNA? I took a position today

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  34. Quality Control Inferno
    Quality Control Inferno

    Watching $SCTY pop AH because of a mention on Options Action is just hilarious to me. Usually I’d fade what those clowns say but I think they have a good idea here going long on $SCTY.

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  35. Option Addict

    That was my favorite mom name here besides DANG

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    • Quality Control Inferno
      Quality Control Inferno

      Yeah man SCTY looks ripe for that v-reversal type bounce. Carter Worth was actually dead on pointing out the prior fast moves up. That volume pocket looks absolutely amazing up to about $75. I was thinking next week’s APR 70’s on Monday and add a YOLO on Tuesday or Wednesday if it hasn’t moved yet. I really think it moves fast though once it starts.

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      • Quality Control Inferno
        Quality Control Inferno

        I mean I’ll start with APR 70s and add a YOLO possibly later on, depending of course on this manic market environment.

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  36. alf44

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    GAWD !!!

    How much longer must we endure that pic of Jim Carrey holding the flaccid dildoe … on the front page ?

    Have you no sense of decorum ?

    .

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  37. gatorsun

    CORT long live our mole

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  38. gatorsun

    PLUG long live our mole

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  39. gatorsun

    OA called the green light to the start of the big bio rally….nailed it,,no way yet

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