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- From: rmandel@bu.edu (Richard Mandel)
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- Subject: Re: Short interest squeezing
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 14:18:39 GMT
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- Rex Wang (cw7821@csc.albany.edu) wrote:
- : The following list is quoted from the NYSE's short interest list.
- : I got them according to 2 rules
- : (1) The short position of the stock is greater than 1,000,000 shares.
- : (2) The days to cover is greater than 7.
- : I created this list in last December. When I updated the list this month,
- : I found that most of stocks have higher closing price than ones in Dec.
- : Hence, It motivates me to study whether the higher short interest squeezes
- : the price or not. I will welcome your comment.
- : All prices are quoted from WSJ dated on 01/25/93.
- Questions:
- 1. Why choose a million shares? It would seem that the
- short interest should be related to the total number of shares
- outstanding or to the daily average trading volume.
- 2. Did these stocks outperform the market as a whole or their
- industry in the same period?
- 3. Did shares that had smaller relative outstanding short interest
- perform worse. Is there any relationship between relative short
- interest and performance?
- 4. It is said that outstanding short interest drives up the price
- of the shares. There may be something useful in the data
- but you need to examine the stats in much more detail.
-
- Rich
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