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by Tyler Durden Sunday, Apr 25, 2021 - 01:15 PM Last November, several months before the reddit targeted squeeze of highly shorted names like GME and AMC arrived, we looked at the latest hedge fund 13F filings and said that "Hedge Funds Go "All-In" As Bears Go Extinct: Shorts Drop To Record Lows", presenting the following chart from Goldman which showed that short interest in the median S&P500 had collapsed to all time lows. Incidentally, thats also when we predicted that those stocks which st...

Stock shorts collapse as no hedge fund wants ‘head ripped off’ Stock shorts collapse as no hedge fund wants ‘head ripped off’ Bloomberg U.S. flags fly outside the New York Stock Exchange Wall Street bears battered by the Reddit crowd earlier this year have yet to regain their gumption, even with stocks at records and valuations near two-decade highs. The median short interest in members of the S&P 500 sits at just 1.6% of market value, near a 17-year low, according to Goldman Sachs Grou...

(Bloomberg) -- A hellish week for hedge funds will be remembered for how much damage Reddit traders caused by chasing a handful of the most-shorted names in the $43 trillion U.S. stock market.But just why were the institutional pros forced to downsize their market exposures at the fastest pace since pandemic-spurred March rout?One reason is that their risk models told them to.As a flood of retail money sent stocks like GameStop Corp. and AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. surging, the trading signa...