S3 Partners

Crowdstrike Holdings Inc (NASDAQ: CRWD) has been a volatile but strong performer in 2020, gaining 125.2% year to date. One of the drivers of Crowdstrike’s volatility in recent months has been short-selling activity, and S3 Partners analyst Ihor Dusaniwsky recently said short sellers are...

Chinese online education stock GSX Techedu Inc (NYSE: GSX) is down 34.1% since Aug. 6, largely due to reports from short sellers Citron Research and Muddy Waters Research accusing the company of being a fraud. According to S3 Partners analyst Ihor Dusaniwsky, GSX was the most aggressively...

Investing always carries a certain degree of risk, but short selling can be particularly risky given potential losses are limitless. Most of the time, extreme short-term losses are purely theoretical, but short sellers of the VelocityShares Daily 3x Inverse Natural Gas ETN (OTC: DGAZF) recently...

Draftkings Inc (NASDAQ: DKNG) shares are now down 6.5% in the past week after Major League Baseball’s opening weeks of play have been far from smooth. Miami Marlins games have been postponed after 21 players tested positive for COVID-19, and the St. Louis Cardinals games were also placed...

Pinterest Inc (NYSE: PINS) shares are up another 7% on Monday and are now up 45.6% overall in the past two trading sessions after the company reported 4% revenue growth and 49 million new users in the second quarter. Global monthly active users were up 39% compared to a year ago. While Pinterest...

Big tech stocks Apple, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), Facebook, Inc (NASDAQ: FB), Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Alphabet, Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) traded mostly higher on Friday after the company’s earnings reports exceeded expectations across the board. Despite these stocks’...

Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE: KODK) shares gained another 19% in early Thursday trading and are now up a whopping 1,780% since last Friday’s close. The massive move came in response to the company securing a $765 million loan from the U.S. government to produce generic drug ingredients under...

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMD) shares jumped 12.8% following the company’s second-quarter earnings beat this week. Semiconductor stocks traded higher in sympathy with AMD, and short sellers took a major beating. In fact, semiconductor short sellers took an $800.3 million paper...

Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) shares took another big hit on Friday and are now down 9.8% since the company reported second-quarter earnings on Wednesday. The sell-off has eased some pressure of a short squeeze in the stock that has endured throughout 2020, and some traders are speculating now may...

Short squeezes are one of the most powerful short-term market catalysts and can generate huge surges in share price. A short squeeze occurs when a heavily shorted stock rises enough that it begins to force its short sellers to close their position by buying the stock. That short covering volume...

Chinese stocks have been on fire in the past month, with the Ishares China Large-Cap Etf (NYSE: FXI) more than doubling the return of the S&P 500 in that time. But according to a new report from S3 Partners analyst Ihor Dusaniwsky, short sellers are taking advantage of the bullish momentum to...

A buying frenzy in electric vehicles stocks has Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) shares up 62.1% and Nikola Corporation (NASDAQ: NKLA) shares up 60% since Nikola first began trading on June 4. While EV investors are making a killing off the scramble for EV stocks, S3 Partners analyst Ihor Dusaniwsky...

Wirecard AG (OTC: WRCDF) shares have collapsed in the past two days after the company said it could not account for $2.1 billion in cash that was listed on its balance sheet. On Thursday, Wirecard shares plummeted more than 60%, and the stock dropped another 45% on Friday morning after the company...

On Monday, Hertz Global Holdings Inc (NYSE: HTZ) announced it would be selling up to $500 million in common stock. In the same filing, the bankrupt company said those shares of stock are unlikely to ultimately hold any value unless higher priority debtholders are fully paid, and short sellers seem...

Electric truck maker Nikola Corporation (NASDAQ: NKLA) has gained nearly 70% since going public via a reverse merger on June 4. The stock’s performance in the last two weeks is certainly impressive, but a spike in borrow rates suggests the big move may just be getting started. Major ...