S3 Partners

Longfin Corp (NASDAQ: LFIN) stock has been all over the map lately, plummeting 80 percent in a two-week stretch before surging 80 percent Thursday after CNBC interviewed CEO Venkat Meenavalli. What Happened The Longfin story has numerous moving parts at the moment, including FTSE...

Advanced Micro Device, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMD) stock is up about 3.5 percent Wednesday on a weak day for the market. Here’s a brief overview of the factors in play. Option Alerts The trading action in AMD started Tuesday when Benzinga Pro’s Signals feed sent out 32 options alerts on...

After getting burned by a huge earnings beat earlier this month, Snap Inc (NYSE: SNAP) short sellers got some major help from Wall Street and Hollywood this week. Just days after a Citigroup downgrade sent Snap shares tumbling, celebrity Kylie Jenner confirmed Citi’s fears about the new...

Short percent of float is a metric often cited by traders when discussing heavily shorted stocks that could be vulnerable to short squeezes. When it comes to using institutional short selling to make predictions about potential fundamental changes in companies, financial analytics firm S3 Partners...

Fossil Group Inc (NASDAQ: FOSL) shares soared higher by more than 60 percent Wednesday after the company shocked Wall Street and short sellers with better-than-feared fourth-quarter earnings and 2018 guidance. But while Fossil shareholders have a rare reason to celebrate, the huge move may not last...

The Bitcoin Investment Trust (OTC: GBTC) is one of the most popular ways for retail traders to make bets on bitcoin. Unfortunately, many GBTC investors don’t fully understand exactly what it is they are buying and the risks involved. For starters, the GBTC is a trust which buys and holds...

In a new interview with Rolling Stone, Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk once again took shots at Tesla short sellers for what he says is “hurtful” behavior. It’s not the first time Musk has lashed out at short sellers, a topic most CEOs rarely acknowledge. The Blame Game...

Five of the hottest growth stocks of the bull market, Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB), Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) and Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL), have shown no signs of slowing down so far in 2017. However, short sellers seem...

Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE: BABA) is one of the best-performing large-cap stocks in the U.S. this year. Shares of China's largest e-commerce company are in the midst of a stunning ascent, up almost 92 percent year to date. By comparison, Alibaba's U.S. rival, Amazon.com Inc. (...

With the S&P 500 down 0.4 percent in the past five days, it's been a pretty good week for most short sellers. However, despite the downward market drift, the single most popular stock to short in the entire U.S. market single-handedly cost short sellers at least $2 billion this week....