Short Sellers Rack Up $2.5 Billion Loss on Riskiest US Stocks

Bloomberg07-28

It’s been a brutal month for traders shorting the riskiest US stocks, and as animal spirits imbue retail investors with boundless confidence, strategists expect the misery to continue for bears.As of ...

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neo26000
07-28
neo26000
Hmm finally, I was not alone. $2.5 billion says we were all confidently wrong together. Turns out, the market didn’t crash. Just our egos.
xnovan
07-28
xnovan
Those shorters deserves to die a million times, I do not pity them! [Cool] [Happy] [Miser] [LOL] [LOL] [LOL]

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Doubting the hype in those firms, which include meme-stock darling Kohl’s Corp., produced four times greater losses than the average short in the US market as individual traders have pushed into a number of speculative names.This week poses a big test for the risk-on mood, with the Aug. 1 deadline for US trade deals looming, one of a slew of key events. However, strategists say the meme-stock frenzy likely has room to run. Data from Vanda Research Corp. shows that net retail buying of companies such as Opendoor Technologies Inc. and Krispy Kreme Inc. has continued to trend higher. Trading frequency has risen as well, according to Marco Iachini, senior vice-president of research at Vanda Research.“I’m not seeing any signs” that the craze is fading, he said.Driving home how profitable a stretch it’s been for investors betting on speculative corners of the market, a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. basket of 50 stocks with the highest short interest in the Russell 3000 Index just posted a record ninth straight week of gains. It has climbed 33% over that stretch and clobbered both the Russell 3000 and the S&P 500 Index’s returns of 10% each. That Goldman basket of stocks is up 15% this month.“July has been a banner month for investors long the most heavily shorted stocks (and brutal for those short them),” Justin Walters, co-founder at Bespoke Investment Group, wrote in a Thursday note.To be sure, the run of outperformance by the most-shorted stocks in the market could signal that the current risk-on sentiment in the market is short-lived, said Michael O’Rourke, chief market strategist at Jonestrading Institutional Services LLC.“I actually don’t think this will be anywhere near as long as 2021,” said O’Rourke. The breadth of this meme-stock rally stands in sharp contrast to the case in 2021, when traders mainly piled into GameStop Corp. and AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc., he said.Other potential hurdles for equities bulls are on the calendar this week: a Federal Reserve monetary-policy decision, earnings results from a quartet of Magnificent Seven companies and Friday’s monthly jobs report. Plus, trading desks at firms including Goldman last week urged clients to buy cheap hedges against potential losses.However, amateur traders may drag institutional money into the speculative rally and keep it going, according to Ihor Dusaniwsky, managing director of predictive analytics at S3 Partners.Once there are “hedge fund holdings on both the long and short sides of these names, coupled with retail buying pressure, they tend to be more volatile and produce higher returns,” Dusaniwsky said. 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Doubting the hype in those firms, which include meme-stock darling Kohl’s Corp., produced four times greater losses than the average short in the US market as individual traders have pushed into a number of speculative names.This week poses a big test for the risk-on mood, with the Aug. 1 deadline for US trade deals looming, one of a slew of key events. However, strategists say the meme-stock frenzy likely has room to run. Data from Vanda Research Corp. shows that net retail buying of companies such as Opendoor Technologies Inc. and Krispy Kreme Inc. has continued to trend higher. Trading frequency has risen as well, according to Marco Iachini, senior vice-president of research at Vanda Research.“I’m not seeing any signs” that the craze is fading, he said.Driving home how profitable a stretch it’s been for investors betting on speculative corners of the market, a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. basket of 50 stocks with the highest short interest in the Russell 3000 Index just posted a record ninth straight week of gains. It has climbed 33% over that stretch and clobbered both the Russell 3000 and the S&P 500 Index’s returns of 10% each. That Goldman basket of stocks is up 15% this month.“July has been a banner month for investors long the most heavily shorted stocks (and brutal for those short them),” Justin Walters, co-founder at Bespoke Investment Group, wrote in a Thursday note.To be sure, the run of outperformance by the most-shorted stocks in the market could signal that the current risk-on sentiment in the market is short-lived, said Michael O’Rourke, chief market strategist at Jonestrading Institutional Services LLC.“I actually don’t think this will be anywhere near as long as 2021,” said O’Rourke. The breadth of this meme-stock rally stands in sharp contrast to the case in 2021, when traders mainly piled into GameStop Corp. and AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc., he said.Other potential hurdles for equities bulls are on the calendar this week: a Federal Reserve monetary-policy decision, earnings results from a quartet of Magnificent Seven companies and Friday’s monthly jobs report. Plus, trading desks at firms including Goldman last week urged clients to buy cheap hedges against potential losses.However, amateur traders may drag institutional money into the speculative rally and keep it going, according to Ihor Dusaniwsky, managing director of predictive analytics at S3 Partners.Once there are “hedge fund holdings on both the long and short sides of these names, coupled with retail buying pressure, they tend to be more volatile and produce higher returns,” Dusaniwsky said. That produces more pain for short sellers, he added.Retail investors are “squeezing hedge funds and then forcing this upward move,” Vanda’s Iachini said.","news_type":1,"symbols_score_info":{"OPEN":1.1,"DNUT":1.1,"KSS":1.1}},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"}],"isCommentEnd":false,"newsSizeData":{"likeSize":7,"commentSize":2,"repostSize":2,"favoriteSize":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false},"APP":{"userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)","isDev":false,"isTTM":true,"deviceId":"web-server-community-laohu8-v3","version":"4.35.12","shortVersion":"4.35.12","platform":"web","vendor":"web","appName":"ttm","isIOS":false,"isAndroid":false,"isTiger":false,"isTHS":false,"isWeiXin":false,"isWeiXinMini":false,"isWeiBo":false,"isQQ":false,"isBaiduSwan":false,"isBaiduBox":false,"isDingTalk":false,"isToutiao":false,"isOnePlus":false,"isHuaWei":false,"isXiaomi":false,"isXiaomiWebView":false,"isOppo":false,"isVivo":false,"isSamsung":false,"isMobile":false},"href":"/m/news/1159031136","isCrawlerRequest":true}