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WALL STREET’S MOST “HATED” STOCKS:
Vertical Fortunes’ Watch List
When Stocks Go Vertical… You Get Rich
vertical fortunesALAN KNUCKMAN’S
Vertical Fortunes is designed to help you bag HUGE profits from the markets’ most hated stocks. And this web page
will help you hunt for other hated stocks on your own.
How can you tell if investors “hate” a stock? It’s pretty simple…
Twice a month, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) publishes a comprehensive list of all the short
positions on publicly traded stocks in the United States.
A short position is a bet that a stock’s price will fall. The higher the short interest, the more investors are expecting
the company’s shares to tumble. So FINRA’s numbers can tell us the names of companies that investors are actively
rooting against.
Better still, this data is available to the public for free!
For your convenience, I’ve compiled a list of the stock market’s most heavily shorted companies below.
Before you dig in, though, let me explain what each column means...
First is the short interest, the number of a company’s shares that are currently sold short in the market.
In the next column you’ll find short interest as a percentage of outstanding shares. The bigger the percentage,
the stronger the short position.
Days to cover tells you how many days it would take for all the short sellers to close out their positions.
Remember, the only way short sellers can close their positions is by buying the stock. But finding enough people
willing to sell their stock can be tough, especially if the price is rising. It could take days for all the short sellers to buy
enough shares to exist
So the bigger the days to cover, the bigger the short squeeze — and the profits — will be!
Finally, the average daily volume column shows you roughly how many shares of a stock trade every day in the markets.
That’s important because stocks with low liquidity tend to get squeezed faster than highly liquid stocks.
Keep in mind, this information is to help you find opportunities on your own. While we’ll cover some of these companies
in Vertical Fortunes, you’ll need to use your best judgement to develop plays on the rest.
But armed with this list, you can easily get started trading hated stocks for a chance at surefire profits!
Check the list out below to get started… and stick with Vertical Fortunes for our specific recommendations.
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wall street’s most “hated” stocks
Company Symbol Short Interest % of Float Days to Cover Avg daily volume
Rite Aid Corporation RAD 168,149,070 17.1 19 9,616,065
SPDR S & P 500 ETF Trust SPY 168,657,701 ... 3 57,454,786
Chesapeake Energy Corp. CHK 159,520,695 16.5 6 24,634,884
J.C. Penney Company, Inc. JCP 138,924,091 47.6 19 7,387,815
Sprint Corporation S 136,808,209 25.4 17 7,958,663
Alibaba Group Holding Limited BABA 128,010,292 5.2 9 15,385,609
iShares MSCI Emerging Markets EEM 116,792,129 ... 2 60,244,905
Weatherford International, plc WFT 124,262,426 11.6 10 11,070,845
Snap Inc. SNAP 110,403,074 23.1 8 14,021,195
General Electric Company GE 130,169,254 1.3 2 52,396,105
Bank of America Corporation BAC 111,820,805 1.1 2 52,854,807
Ford Motor Company F 120,214,310 2.6 4 27,876,537
CenturyLink, Inc. CTL 91,852,977 8.1 14 6,221,202
iShares Russell 2000 ETF IWM 87,099,032 ... 5 18,932,006
AT & T Inc. T 101,270,273 1.2 2 40,849,690
Ensco PLC ESV 85,974,405 18.5 6 14,546,607
AK Steel Holding Corp. AKS 81,895,570 25.3 8 9,965,749
iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Cor HYG 84,941,211 ... 6 12,030,526
SPDR S & P Oil & Gas Exploration XOP 70,755,817 ... 5 14,619,496
Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellscha DB 72,332,965 ... 16 4,656,884
Copyright by Agora Financial, LLC. 808 St. Paul Street, Baltimore, MD 21202. All rights reserved. No part of this report may be reproduced by any means or for any reason without the consent of the publisher. The information contained herein is obtained from sources believed to be reliable; however, its accuracy cannot be guaranteed.
Source: FactSet
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