How strange that just after posting that I don’t see Apple as a short I read an article laying out the bear case. Ken Kurson wrote the article, entitled “iPod, iTunes, iSell: Time to Short the One You Love”, for the March 2005 issue of Esquire Magazine (The article doesn’t appear to be online [...]

The CANSLIM Investing Blog has a post today discussing overhead resistance and why you’d want to buy as a stock just as it’s breaking out to new all-time highs. Another reason I’ll add to the list is the potential for a short squeeze. Once a stock makes a new all-time high, not only [...]

I posted about the short squeeze in TASR last week. Now that it’s split 3-for-1 the squeeze is even more painful. Right now it’s up about 40% from the pre-split close of 2 days ago. Again, this is why you don’t try to pick a top, don’t short solely on valuation, and [...]

We had some interesting action on Tuesday. The Dow and S&P tried to drop, but they eventually got dragged up by the NASDAQ. The action on the Naz feels like a short squeeze to me. I can’t imagine who else would be buying with such recklessness ahead of earnings season. Anyway, [...]