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Post by dreamboatcruise on May 3, 2017 9:40:22 GMT -5
Does anyone have a resource that tracks the historical the Fidelity loan, be interesting to see it on a graph compared to share price and significant events. Might show when the have been ahead of the curve ... and and when they haven't (not sure if this is second one is applicable). OOG I don't have specific data but my recollection says short interest rises before news. My guess shorts will push this down as hard as necessary when news comes. I would not be surprised to see short interest climb to 40% in the next few weeks. Good question, I would love to see data... I've certainly seen short interest rise before news that a company is broke. If a company is going to go bankrupt there are usually more than enough shorts to realize it and take advantage. Not saying that will happen to Mannkind, but having short interest rise and price eroding means shorts are willing to continue betting more while longs are more and more hesitant... and it doesn't make sense that would be because both sides think something positive is about to happen. Hopefully both sides will be surprised by something unexpectedly good.
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Post by agedhippie on May 3, 2017 10:18:38 GMT -5
I don't have specific data but my recollection says short interest rises before news. My guess shorts will push this down as hard as necessary when news comes. I would not be surprised to see short interest climb to 40% in the next few weeks. Good question, I would love to see data... I've certainly seen short interest rise before news that a company is broke. If a company is going to go bankrupt there are usually more than enough shorts to realize it and take advantage. Not saying that will happen to Mannkind, but having short interest rise and price eroding means shorts are willing to continue betting more while longs are more and more hesitant... and it doesn't make sense that would be because both sides think something positive is about to happen. Hopefully both sides will be surprised by something unexpectedly good. I worked at one large company where people used to routinely short the price before any market conference call because every time the execs spoke the price dropped (it recovered a few days later once people worked out the company made money despite the idiot executives)
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Post by traderdennis on May 3, 2017 13:04:33 GMT -5
Does anyone have a resource that tracks the historical the Fidelity loan, be interesting to see it on a graph compared to share price and significant events. Might show when the have been ahead of the curve ... and and when they haven't (not sure if this is second one is applicable). OOG I don't have specific data but my recollection says short interest rises before news. My guess shorts will push this down as hard as necessary when news comes. I would not be surprised to see short interest climb to 40% in the next few weeks. Good question, I would love to see data... The news is upcoming earnings
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Post by dreamboatcruise on May 3, 2017 13:09:59 GMT -5
I don't have specific data but my recollection says short interest rises before news. My guess shorts will push this down as hard as necessary when news comes. I would not be surprised to see short interest climb to 40% in the next few weeks. Good question, I would love to see data... The news is upcoming earnings You mean the quarterly "losses call".
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Post by saxcmann on May 3, 2017 13:58:56 GMT -5
I don't have specific data but my recollection says short interest rises before news. My guess shorts will push this down as hard as necessary when news comes. I would not be surprised to see short interest climb to 40% in the next few weeks. Good question, I would love to see data... The news is upcoming earnings No
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Post by traderdennis on May 4, 2017 7:43:06 GMT -5
The news is upcoming earnings No I should clarify. For the shorts, the lack of any new news will be their trigger to short the stock either right after release, or after the conference call. It has happened so many times before, this is probably their last shot.
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Post by boytroy88 on May 4, 2017 8:28:50 GMT -5
I should clarify. For the shorts, the lack of any new news will be their trigger to short the stock either right after release, or after the conference call. It has happened so many times before, this is probably their last shot. One of the momentum stocks trading board I frequent has one of its prominent members recommending shorting MNKD on any spikes in SP. So looks like they are going to attack it regardless of the type of news other than any long term funding announcements.
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Post by rossomalley on May 4, 2017 16:21:08 GMT -5
I should clarify. For the shorts, the lack of any new news will be their trigger to short the stock either right after release, or after the conference call. It has happened so many times before, this is probably their last shot. One of the momentum stocks trading board I frequent has one of its prominent members recommending shorting MNKD on any spikes in SP. So looks like they are going to attack it regardless of the type of news other than any long term funding announcements. What board is that?
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Post by boytroy88 on May 4, 2017 21:25:46 GMT -5
One of the momentum stocks trading board I frequent has one of its prominent members recommending shorting MNKD on any spikes in SP. So looks like they are going to attack it regardless of the type of news other than any long term funding announcements. What board is that? TimAlerts
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Post by cjm18 on May 5, 2017 7:26:42 GMT -5
That's not good. He has a ton of followers and very successful students. Wouldn't surprise me if his students were shorting since reverse split.
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Post by boytroy88 on May 5, 2017 7:48:40 GMT -5
That's not good. He has a ton of followers and very successful students. Wouldn't surprise me if his students were shorting since reverse split. That's not his philosophy he's all about momentum.
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