Trader Mark submits:
The love affair with adult re-education is starting to get a bit out of hand; Thursday was ITT Educational’s (ESI) turn. Granted nice earnings, but the chart has turned parabolic. There is not a great technical reason to short here, other than "it’s out of hand" - that doesn’t mean it cannot [...]

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Trader Mark submits:
Just realized I never added this position to my new portfolio - with much chagrin. It’s sitting there in the old Marketocracy.com account but nowhere to be found in our new tracking as I’ve been focused on equities instead. I just added 10 shares, so it is at least sitting on the books, [...]

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Jessica Johnson submits:
According to Reuters, and in a letter to Financial Services Authority to chief executive Hector Sants, Treasury Committee chairman John McFall said there had been anecdotal evidence that some hedge funds had been short selling U.K. bank stocks since the ban was lifted on January 16.
Our data reveals that there has been scarce [...]

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Simit Patel submits:
A common thesis among US perma-bears is that we are witnessing the destruction of what Eric Janszen has dubbed the FIRE Economy: finance, insurance, and real estate. For those who accept this thesis, how can this be traded profitably?
One natural strategy would be to short sector ETFs.
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Rakesh Saxena submits:
Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) issued a ’short-term sell" call on General Electric (GE) Tuesday. But a senior executive of a GE-affiliate in India suggested, with a dose of sarcasm, that the UBS analyst who issued that call should focus on UBS itself. "Rather than confusing investors with flawed recommendations in the current [...]

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