ONE-TWENTY TWO: Trading Financial Markets
Exploring the poetry in financial markets for students of money and economy since the year 2000.
For the two weeks ending August 31, short interest in Cisco (CSCO) surged 26% to 52.4 million shares (only 0.7% of float). This is close to the current 52-week high set on March 15. Over the past year, there were only two other periods that matched this recent surge in percentage terms: short interest increased … Read more
On November 5, Research In Motion (RIMM) announced a buyback of up to $1.2B in shares starting November 9 and lasting for up to a year. When I read this announcement, I pounced on the stock the minute pre-market trading opened. This was quite a mental exercise for me because I had just closed out … Read more