Activist Shorts

Activist Short Selling in W39

2020-09-28

This week we have registered four new major short campaigns, with targeted shares trading 6% lower on average. The most important report this week was Muddy’s take on a recent IPO which potentially shares many features with Nikola, namely allegedly misrepresenting a product.  We also look at the developments in Europe. Grenke …

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European Shorts, Activist Shorts

Activist Short Selling in W38

2020-09-21

This week we have registered five new major short campaigns, with targeted shares trading 14.3% lower. The most important report this week was probably Viceroy’s re-entry to German markets and alleging one German company is an accounting fraud. We scrutinize how the company is trying to defend itself and look at share prices.  …

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Retail Flows, Activist Shorts

Activist Short Selling in W37

2020-09-14

This week we have registered five new activist short campaigns, with targeted shares trading 3.6% lower. Hindenburg delivered a short report on a well-known EV start-up. The report included strong claims of fraudulent behaviour. Financial Times corroborated some of the evidence.  We also highlight a new report on a perennial …

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Retail Flows, Activist Shorts

Activist Short Selling in W36

2020-09-05

This week we have registered one new major short campaign, with targeted shares trading 16.1% lower. Muddy Waters targeted a Covid-19 vaccine hopeful which is supposedly going to have a problem to even manufacture the potential vaccine. The short-seller has joined Citron and believes the space is just too crowded for …

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Retail Flows

Retail investors and wild swings in Tesla

2020-09-04

We have seen some wild swings in Tesla this week. Considering that this is one of the most popular stocks among retail investors, the question arises: what have retail investors been doing in Tesla this week?* We resorted to our Robinhood-popularity-proxy feed and found that our estimated retail sentiment and …

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Retail Flows

What's in Davey Day Trader's Portfolio

2020-09-01

Amazon (AMZN), Shopify (SHOP), Fastly (FSLY), Alibaba (BABA), and Apple (AAPL) are among the biggest holdings in portfolio of Davey Day Trader.* Need retail flows and sentiment? Get our great proxy for Robinhood's popularity data. Our Retail Flows plan provides real time retail sentiment, estimates retail flows and positioning, and alerts about activities of VIP retail investors. …

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