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Short-Sellers Have These 3 ETFs in Their Sights February 2, 2021 11:31 PM newsfeedback@fool.com (Dan Caplinger) Posted: Updated: February 4, 2021 8:15 AM Investors are paying more attention than ever to the practice of selling stocks short. The risks involved in short-selling have never been more evident, as the recent short-squeeze on GameStop (NYSE: GME) and other stocks shows. Now, some investors are looking for other heavily shorted securities to see if they can duplicate their success in pushing GameStop’s share price up so dramatically, at least temporarily. Although many s...

February 3, 2021 4:05 AM newsfeedback@fool.com (Dan Caplinger) Posted: Updated: February 4, 2021 9:06 AM Investors are always looking for stocks that will perform well in the future. When you find an investment that has good prospects of doubling, therefore, it gets your attention. Unfortunately, Wall Street analysts don’t have a perfect track record of projecting what’s going to happen to the stocks they cover. Sometimes, they’ll put pessimistic price targets on stocks that soar. Other times, analysts are overly optimistic about companies that don’t turn out to have the pot...

Channel3000.com February 1, 2021 4:05 AM newsfeedback@fool.com (Dan Caplinger) Posted: Updated: February 2, 2021 7:35 AM The Reddit group WallStreetBets had huge success in January, using its crowdsourcing power to send shares of GameStop (NYSE: GME) into the stratosphere. Already, many investors are trying to figure out where WallStreetBets will focus its attention next, and hints that the group might try to create a silver squeeze sent prices of the semi-precious metal sharply higher late last week. Over the weekend, many tweets and messages suggested that iShares Silver Trust (...

WKBT February 1, 2021 6:03 AM newsfeedback@fool.com (Dan Caplinger) Posted: Updated: February 2, 2021 10:31 AM Many investors in exchange-traded funds just seek to match the market’s performance. But at ARK Invest, ETFs are all about beating the market. All five of ARK Invest’s active ETF doubled investors’ money in 2020, and that has everyone watching what red-hot investing star Cathie Wood is doing in the portfolio. The nice thing about the active ETF structure is that you get to see what happens with ARK Invest’s funds every day. With that in mind, here are ARK Invest’...

However, even without a naked short sale, it's theoretically possible for short interest to exceed 100%. The reason has to do with the nature of the short-sale transaction itself. As an example, take a situation involving four investors. Annie owns shares of GameStop, and Annie and her broker have an agreement that allows the broker to lend Annie's shares to short-sellers. It lends them to Bob, who subsequently sells those borrowed shares short in hopes that GameStop's share price will fall. An investor named Chris ends up buying those borrowed shares from Bob. However, Chris has no way of kn...