Last month I wrote an article titled Bears Vs Bulls: High Short Interest Stocks. These are stocks that have a positive 52 week gain and short interest between 30-60%. Let’s take a look and see if they performed the way we thought they would. Priceline.com (PCLN) Stockmasters recommendation: Short The Masters were all over this one. Priceline has fallen from $125.69 to $109.55 in the last month – the dark side of the force has taken over, and the 60% short interest in the stock is winning the battle. ...

Dropping from $73 to $16 is one thing, but a 60.53% Short Interest, NutriSystem (NASDAQ:NTRI) when does the nightmare end? If I was Larry the Cable Guy, I would ask for a cash advance before NTRI has to close up shop. It would appear everyone has lost faith in NTRI except the company itself. In this market that continues to tank everyday, it's really hard to put in your faith in what may look like a 'bargain buy'.  That P/E of 7.15 just doesn't add up, but neither does the fear in the market.  It's just a sign of the ...

Whole Foods Market Inc. (NASDAQ:WFMI) shares have taken a huge beating and before yesterday's close sat at $1 above their 52-week low.  Add to that a 19% short interest all it took was one analyst upgrade and up 5% we go. The Upgrade came in this morning from FTN Midwest: 04-Jun-08 Upgrade FTN Midwest Neutral → Buy Masters with high gas prices and groceries so expensive, there's no surprise WFMI shares have been dropped like a rock.  Use caution playing this stock but what you can argue with is WFMI is here to stay. Forbes.com take: The shares of ...

Some people are making this way harder than it is when it comes to making money. I make it very clear when I am going very long and when I am only buying a few to a hundred shares of something. A newbie will not know this but anyone with at least a few months will know that. So when you see that there are so many longs tonight don’t get too excited thinking that this market is going to be super bullish. It is what it is. A low volume rally. But this low volume rally is loaded with short sellers, via the NYSE short interest constantly hitting all-time highs now at 14.27. So as long as the short sellers jump in the market and people continue to deny the rally–bulls fell to 37% from 50% in this week’s investors intelligence poll. I have heard some actually say “I thought we ...

Weill this has to be quick as the chat room was too busy and I spent a LONG time writing up a nice piece that I would appreciate all members read that are subscribers to at least the silver level. The writeup on the long section will hopefully help some of you to understand why it is 100000x times better to learn to fish than to just take the fish fro free. Now I am dead tired, just updated my orders, and still have to hit my forums. But what I can tell you here is that I had a few very nice stocks bounce off key averages or trendlines that could be very bullish on the short term to possibly the long term. I also loved the fact that the put/call ratio stayed at .94 above the .90 level which signals that most are still wanting to place as many bearish ...

Companies, Inc. (NASDAQ:ZOLT) is a gem in the Wind alternative energy industry. But it's high 26% short interest and investigation by SEC for accounting errors has dropped this stock 35% since it's high last August. So if Wind is another answer to fossil fuels and high oil prices, should you be thinking about ZOLT? First, the Department of Energy said last week forecast that the industry might deliver 20% of the nation’s electricity by 2030. It generates less than 1% now. Then famed oilman T. Boone Pickens ordered 667 turbines from General Electric (NYSE:GE) to outfit the wind empire he envisions on the Texas Panhandle (GE is now ...

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