Short sellers are down $91 billion in January as GameStop leads squeeze in stocks they bet against

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'Short sellers have obviously picked the wrong stocks in January,' bobpisani says. Watch to see his lessons learned and who the real enemy of short-sellers is.

In 2020, 57% of all securities shorted lost money. Sixty-eight percent of every dollar bet lost money.

Given the beating short sellers have been taking, it's not surprising that the dollar value of stocks shorted compared to the dollar value of theShorts are not a big part of the market That may seem like a small amount of money, but short sellers play a very important role. They are instrumental in calling out companies that may have questionable accounting, as was the case with Luckin Coffee and Wirecard last year.Their most important function may be as liquidity providers. They provide liquidity for the equity market, and they provide liquidity for derivatives traders who take the other side of options trades.

If call option prices do indeed rise, Tchir warns, that could generate false signals to the market. "If call option prices go up, that could force theup, and traders may mistakenly believe there is fear building up. It may not be the time to be bearish, but it certainly may be the time to avoid highly volatile stocks that are chatroom favorites."

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BobPisani Emotions are the same from before. The execution/volume/speed/data available are not. adapt Looks like all I need to see are “🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀 and 🙅🏻‍♂️👨‍🦳

BobPisani BobPisani it's laissez-faire (within legal bounds of course) in Wall Street, this is a must. If a hedge fund gets annihilated by the free market, you have to blame the hedge fund for their foolishness, not anyone else.

BobPisani fernandoulrich Sobre o FED ser o inimigo dos short-sellers

BobPisani After hours it went to 248 $ a share

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BobPisani Wish I would see their faces when GME went straight up. The only people loosing money are Shorts and Paper Hand. WSB

BobPisani “What about those people that lost money buying the 150 out of the money calls”...........

BobPisani Hahaha just laugh! Hope they haven’t shorted $AMC cos we are taking it to the 🌙 alongside $GME 🚀🍿

BobPisani melvincapital

BobPisani See how they use the word enemy lol wallstreetbets WSBgod wsbmod

BobPisani I wouldn’t short anything right now personally. Puts are the hot thing now. Selling short is old fashioned. 😂 I learned that the hard way a while back.

BobPisani thank you very much for your work

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