Weirdest Wall Street Stuff on Amazon

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by Fred Fuld III

Are you looking for a great joke gift for a stock trader friend? Or maybe just a funny gift for your father who likes to invest, and you need to come up with a present for Father’s Day. Then again, you could just be looking for something for yourself to prove what a great trader or investor you are.

If so, there is a great selection of unusual  items on Amazon related to investing and the stock market. Here is an interesting list of the out-of-the-ordinary.

ROCKET SHIP WSB WALL STREET BETS STOCK MARKET T-SHIRT

If you made money on GameStop (GME), why not show it off with this attention getting WallStreetBets To the Moon T-Shirt.

 

WOLF OF WALL STREET POSTER

Here’s an unusual one. A framable quote from Jordan Belfort, the Wolf of Wall Street.

 

MINIATURE ATM

All right, it’s not a real ATM. It’s basically a kid’s piggy bank, but instead of being in the shape of a pig, it is in the shape of a bank vault with keypads and everything. A unique gift for a child.

STOCK MARKET DECISION MAKER

If you can’t figure out which way the stock market is going, check out this desk paperweight stock market decision maker that might just tell you whether to buy, sell, short, hold, and so on. Makes a great icebreaker for visitors to your office.

 

ARE YOU MADE OF MONEY?

People might think so if they look below your pant cuffs and see socks with money raining down.

SHOW THAT YOU’RE THE GODFATHER OF STOCKS

If your father trades stocks, this might be the perfect Fathers Day gift, a T-shirt that says The Stocksfather.

 

COVID STOCK MARKET CHART

Now here’s a chart that you won’t see every day. A graph of the SPY from December 2019 to May 2020, showing the Coronavirus Crash.

 

SHOW THE WORLD THAT YOU TRADE WHILE YOU DRIVE

This is a chrome plastic license plate frame that proclaims that you would much rather be watching the stock market.

 

THANK YOU AMC STONK TO THE MOON STICKERS

Here are three stickers for those that made money from  AMC (AMC). Put them on your laptop, your front door, your car, your water bottle, your face, or wherever.

 

ARE YOU A STOCK MARKET GENIUS?

This Stock Market Genius coffee mug is great for braggarts.

 

WHAT GUY WOULDN’T WANT A THROW PILLOW?

This is a Buy the Fear, Sell the Greed throw pillow, great for punching or throwing if you make a trading mistake.

 

BULL AND BEAR BRONZE STATUE WITH A TWIST

You have probably seen several of this statues showing a bull and a bear. This one is a little different. The bull is goring the bear, and look at the bear’s expression.

Hopefully you can find some great unusual, weird, strange, investment related gifts for yourself, family, and friends.

 

 

 

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5 Low Priced Short Squeeze Stocks

 by Fred Fuld III

Unless you haven’t paid any attention to financial news at all, you probably already know that GameStop (GME) has gone up over 700% in the last five days. The movie theater chain, AMC (AMC) was available for a little over two bucks ten days ago. Today, it traded for 25.80 this morning in pre-market trading.

You also probably know that these huge gains have been caused by short squeezes.  Back on September 18 last year, I published an article called Top Restaurant Short Squeeze Stocks, and it listed four companies that were heavily shorted. In just the last four months, those stocks have had stellar returns.

The worst performing stock was up 38%. Not a bad return for four months. The best performing was Dave & Busters (PLAY), which was up 138%. Here are those four stocks, with the percent of float shorted at the time, the days to cover at the time, and the return if you had bought the stock back then and sold today.

Stock	Symbol	% of Float	Days to Cover	% Gain
Shake Shack	SHAK	26%	5.7	85%
Dave & Buster’s	PLAY	33%	1.8	136%
Red Robin	RRGB	35%	3.4	64%
El Pollo Loco	LOCO	19%	11.2	38%

Many of the heavily shorted stocks you have seen on the news during the last couple days are high priced, with a majority of them trading over $100 a share. That’s a lot of risk. So If you are looking for low priced stocks that might be short squeeze plays, I will cover that shortly.

But first, a review about the short squeeze and its terminology. When you short a stock, it means that your goal is to make money from a drop in the price of a stock. Technically, what happens is that you borrow shares of a stock, sell those shares, then buy back those shares at a hopefully lower price so that those shares can be returned. This all happens electronically, so you don’t actually see all the borrowing and returning of shares; it just shows up on your screen as a negative number of shares.

Short selling can be profitable, but sometimes when the stock moves against the short sellers, and begins to rise, the short sellers jump in right away to buy shares to cover their positions, creating what is called a short squeeze. When a short squeeze takes place, it can cause the share prices to increase fast and furiously. Any good news can trigger the short squeeze.

Some traders utilize this situation by looking for stocks to buy that may have a potential short squeeze. Here is what a short squeeze trader should take into consideration:

Short Percentage of Float ~ The float is the number of freely tradable shares and the short percentage is the number of shares held short divided by the float. Amounts over 10% to 20% are considered high and potential short squeeze plays.

Short Ratio / Days to Cover / Short Interest Ratio -This is probably the most important metric when looking for short squeeze trades, no matter what you call it. This is the number of days it would take the short sellers to cover their position based on the average daily volume of shares traded. This is a significant ratio as it shows how “stuck” the short sellers are when they want to buy in their shares without driving up the price too much. Unfortunately for the shortsellers, the longer the number of days to cover, the bigger and longer the squeeze.

Short Percentage Increase ~ This is the percentage increase in in the number of short sellers from the previous month.

Check out the following list, but be aware, that often some stocks are heavily shorted for a reason. All these stocks have significant short metrics.

Stock	Symbol	% of Float	Days to Cover	Stock Price
Ayro	AYRO	23.28%	0.51	7.24
Clovis Oncology	CLVS	42.43%	6.54	7.94
Senseonics	SENS	30.95%	1.36	2.51
TherapeuticsMD	TXMD	28.89%	14.30	1.59
VBI Vaccines	VBIV	25.64%	6.62	3.15

So as an example, VBI Vaccines has over 25% of the float shorted, and it will take over six days for the short sellers to cover their positions, based on the average daily volume.

Obviously, there is no guarantee that these stocks will go up, but if I was short any stock selling for less than $10 a share, I wouldn’t want to waste any time covering my position, before all the other short sellers clamor in and drive the price way up.

Disclosure: Author owns TXMD. No recommendations are express or implied.

Stocks Going Ex Dividend the Second Week of June

Here is our latest update on the stock trading technique called 'Buying Dividends,' also commonly referred to as 'Dividend Capture.' This is the process of buying stocks before the ex dividend date and selling the stock shortly after the ex date at about the same price, yet still being entitled to the dividend. This technique generally works only in bull markets, and can work in flat or choppy markets, but you need to avoid the technique during bear markets.

In order to be entitled to the dividend, you have to buy the stock before the ex-dividend date, and you can't sell the stock until after the ex date. The actual dividend may not be paid for another few weeks. WallStreetNewsNetwork.com has compiled a downloadable and sortable list of the stocks going ex dividend in the near future. The list contains many dividend paying companies, lots with market caps over $500 million, and yields over 2%. Here are a few examples showing the stock symbol, the ex-dividend date, and the yield.

Ameren Corp	AEE	6/6/2016	3.6%
Cinemark Holdings	CNK	6/6/2016	3.0%
Easterly Government Prop.	DEA	6/6/2016	4.9%
First American Financial	FAF	6/6/2016	2.7%
Guess, Inc.	GES	6/6/2016	5.8%
Greenhill & Co.	GHL	6/6/2016	8.9%
GameStop	GME	6/6/2016	4.9%

The additional ex-dividend stocks can be found at wsnn.com. (If you have been to the website before, and the latest link doesn't show up, you may have to empty your cache.) If you like dividend stocks, you should check out some of the other high yield stock lists at WallStreetNewsNetwork.com or WSNN.com. Most of the lists are free. 

Dividend definitions:

Declaration date: the day that the company declares that there is going to be an upcoming dividend.

Ex-dividend date: the day on which if you buy the stock, you would not be entitled to that particular dividend; or the first day on which a shareholder can sell the shares and still be entitled to the dividend.

Monthly Dividend Stock List
Record date: the day when you must be on the company's books as a shareholder to receive the dividend. The ex-dividend date is normally set for stocks at two business days before the record date.

Payment date: the day on which the dividend payment is actually made, which can be as long at two months after the ex date.

Book now available: Buying Dividends Revised and Expanded

Book now available: Stock Market Trivia Makes a Great Gift!

Don't forget to reconfirm the ex-dividend date with the company before implementing this technique.

Disclosure: Author did not own any of the above at the time the article was written.

By Stockerblog.com

Stocks Going Ex Dividend the First Week of December

Here is our latest update on the stock trading technique called 'Buying Dividends,' also commonly referred to as 'Dividend Capture.' This is the process of buying stocks before the ex dividend date and selling the stock shortly after the ex date at about the same price, yet still being entitled to the dividend. This technique generally works only in bull markets, and can work in flat or choppy markets, but you need to avoid the technique during bear markets.

In order to be entitled to the dividend, you have to buy the stock before the ex-dividend date, and you can't sell the stock until after the ex date. The actual dividend may not be paid for another few weeks. WallStreetNewsNetwork.com has compiled a downloadable and sortable list of the stocks going ex dividend in the near future. The list contains many dividend paying companies, lots with market caps over $500 million, and yields over 2%. Here are a few examples showing the stock symbol, the ex-dividend date, and the yield.

Arrow Financial	AROW	12/1/2015	3.5%
BlackRock, Inc.	BLK	12/1/2015	2.4%
Cincinnati Financial	CINF	12/1/2015	3.0%
Elmira Savings Bank	ESBK	12/1/2015	4.9%

Cedar Fair L.P.  MLP	FUN	12/1/2015	5.8%
GameStop	GME	12/1/2015	4.0%
Kronos Worldwide Inc	KRO	12/1/2015	9.2%
Mosaic Co.	MOS	12/1/2015	3.5%
Pacific Coast Oil Trust	ROYT	12/1/2015	5.6%
Valhi Inc.	VHI	12/1/2015	4.4%
Vishay Intertechnology, Inc.	VSH	12/1/2015	2.0%
Analog Devices	ADI	12/2/2015	2.7%
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.	AJG	12/2/2015	3.4%

The additional ex-dividend stocks can be found at wsnn.com. (If you have been to the website before, and the latest link doesn't show up, you may have to empty your cache.) If you like dividend stocks, you should check out some of the other high yield stock lists at WallStreetNewsNetwork.com or WSNN.com. Most of the lists are free. 

Dividend definitions:

Declaration date: the day that the company declares that there is going to be an upcoming dividend.

Ex-dividend date: the day on which if you buy the stock, you would not be entitled to that particular dividend; or the first day on which a shareholder can sell the shares and still be entitled to the dividend.

Monthly Dividend Stock List
Record date: the day when you must be on the company's books as a shareholder to receive the dividend. The ex-dividend date is normally set for stocks at two business days before the record date.

Payment date: the day on which the dividend payment is actually made, which can be as long at two months after the ex date.

Book now available: Buying Dividends Revised and Expanded

Book now available: Stock Market Trivia Makes a Great Gift!

Don't forget to reconfirm the ex-dividend date with the company before implementing this technique.

Disclosure: Author did not own any of the above at the time the article was written.

By Stockerblog.com

Make Money Buying Short Squeeze Stocks

One strategy that many stock traders utilize is purchasing short squeeze stocks. When a stock is shorted, it means that you anticipate profiting from a reduction in the price of a stock. What happens in the background is that you borrow shares of a company, sell those shares, then buy back those shares later at a what the traders expects is a lower price so that those shares can be paid back. You don't really see all the borrowing and replacement of the shares; it just appears in your account as a negative number of shares.

Short sellers often profit from this technique, but occasionally when the stock moves against them, the stock rises, and the short sellers rush to buy back shares to cover their position, creating what is referred to as a short squeeze. When this happens, the stock can increase in value very quickly. Positive news can cause the short squeeze to take place.

Stock traders profit from this situation by finding stocks that could have a potential short squeeze. Here is what they look for:

• Short Percentage of Float ~ The float is the number of freely tradable shares and the short percentage is the number of shares held short divided by the float. Amounts over 10% to 20% are considered high, and potential short squeeze plays. 
• Short Ratio / Days to Cover / Short Interest Ratio -A very important metric. This is the number of days it would take the short sellers to cover their position based on the average daily volume of shares traded. This is a significant ratio as it shows how "stuck" the short sellers are when they want to buy in their shares without driving up the price too much. Unfortunately for the shortsellers, the longer the number of days to cover, the bigger and longer the squeeze.
• Short Percentage Increase ~ This is the percentage increase in the number of short sellers from the previous month.

So here are some stocks that are heavily shorted.

GoPro (GPRO), the sports camera company, is a heavily shorted stock, with over 60% of the stock's float currently held short.

Pilgrims Pride Corporation (PPC) is also heavily shorted, with 58% of the float held short. In addition, the Short Interest Ratio is 19.7. This means that the approximate number of days to cover the position is 20 days, based on the current daily volume.

ITT Educational Services (ESI) has a short interest of 47%, and a days to cover ratio of 31.9. GameStop (GME) has 44% of the float shorted, with a short interest ratio of 42.3.

For other stock ideas, check out the stock lists at WallStreetNewsNetwork.com.

Disclosure: Author didn't own any of the above at the time the article was written.

By Stockerblog.com

Stocks Going Ex Dividend the First Week of June

 

Here is our latest update on the stock trading technique called 'Buying Dividends'. This is the process of buying stocks before the ex dividend date and selling the stock shortly after the ex date at about the same price, yet still being entitled to the dividend. This technique generally works only in bull markets, and can work in flat or choppy markets, but you need to avoid the technique during bear markets.

In order to be entitled to the dividend, you have to buy the stock before the ex-dividend date, and you can't sell the stock until after the ex date. The actual dividend may not be paid for another few weeks. WallStreetNewsNetwork.com has compiled a downloadable and sortable list of the stocks going ex dividend in the near future. The list contains many dividend paying companies, lots with market caps over $500 million, and yields over 2%. Here are a few examples showing the stock symbol, the ex-dividend date, and the yield.

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Avery Dennison	AVY	6/2	2.9%
Compuware Corporation	CPWR	6/2	5.0%
Cedar Fair L.P.	FUN	6/2	5.4%
Greenhill & Co.	GHL	6/2	3.6%
GameStop	GME	6/2	3.5%
Old Republic International Corp	ORI	6/2	4.3%
Pacific Coast Oil Trust	ROYT	6/2	12.8%
Atlas Resource Partners, L.P.	ARP	6/3	11.6%

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Gannett	GCI	6/4	2.9%
Genuine Parts	GPC	6/4	2.7%
HollyFrontier Corp	HFC	6/4	2.6%
Kimberly-Clark	KMB	6/4	3.0%
L Brands Inc.	LB	6/4	2.4%
Navient Corp	NAVI	6/4	3.8%

 The additional ex-dividend stocks can be found at wsnn.com. (If you have been to the website before, and the latest link doesn't show up, you may have to empty your cache.) If you like dividend stocks, you should check out some of the other high yield stock lists at WallStreetNewsNetwork.com or WSNN.com. Most of the lists are free. 
Dividend definitions:

Declaration date: the day that the company declares that there is going to be an upcoming dividend.

Ex-dividend date: the day on which if you buy the stock, you would not be entitled to that particular dividend; or the first day on which a shareholder can sell the shares and still be entitled to the dividend.

Monthly Dividend Stock List
Record date: the day when you must be on the company's books as a shareholder to receive the dividend. The ex-dividend date is normally set for stocks at two business days before the record date.

Payment date: the day on which the dividend payment is actually made, which can be as long at two months after the ex date.

Book now available: Buying Dividends Revised and Expanded

Book now available: Stock Market Trivia
A Great Gift!

Don't forget to reconfirm the ex-dividend date with the company before implementing this technique.

Disclosure: Author did not own any of the above at the time the article was written.

By Stockerblog.com

Stocks Going Ex Dividend the First Week of March

  Here is our latest update on the stock trading technique called 'Buying Dividends'. This is the process of buying stocks before the ex dividend date and selling the stock shortly after the ex date at about the same price, yet still being entitled to the dividend. This technique generally works only in bull markets. In flat or choppy markets, you have to be extremely careful, and may need to avoid the technique during those times.

In order to be entitled to the dividend, you have to buy the stock before the ex-dividend date, and you can't sell the stock until after the ex date. The actual dividend may not be paid for another few weeks. WallStreetNewsNetwork.com has compiled a downloadable and sortable list of the stocks going ex dividend during the next week or two. The list contains many dividend paying companies, all with market caps over $500 million, and yields over 2%. Here are a few examples showing the stock symbol, the ex-dividend date, the yield, and the market capitalization.

Enerplus Corp (ERF) 3/1/2013 8.3% $2.5B

GameStop Corp. (GME) 3/1/2013 4.4% $3.0B

Hancock Holding Company (HBHC) 3/1/2013 3.1% $2.6B

Itau Unibanco Holding SA ADR (ITUB) 3/1/2013 3.2% $39.6B

Regal Entertainment Group (RGC) 3/1/2013 5.4% $2.4B

NV Energy, Inc. (NVE) 3/1/2013 3.9% $4.7B

The additional ex-dividend stocks can be found at wsnn.com. (If you have been to the website before, and the latest link doesn't show up, you may have to empty your cache.) If you like dividend stocks, you should check out the high yield utility stocks and the Monthly Dividend Stocks at WallStreetNewsNetwork.com or WSNN.com.

Dividend definitions:

Declaration date: the day that the company declares that there is going to be an upcoming dividend.

Ex-dividend date: the day on which if you buy the stock, you would not be entitled to that particular dividend; or the first day on which a shareholder can sell the shares and still be entitled to the dividend.

Monthly Dividend Stock List
Record date: the day when you must be on the company's books as a shareholder to receive the dividend. The ex-dividend date is normally set for stocks two business days before the record date.

Payment date: the day on which the dividend payment is actually made, which can be as long at two months after the ex date.

Book now available: Buying Dividends Revised and Updated
Don't forget to reconfirm the ex-dividend date with the company before implementing this technique.

Disclosure: Author did not own any of the above at the time the article was written.

By Stockerblog.com

Top Retailer Short Squeeze Plays for Stock Traders

A short squeeze takes place when an excessive amount of short sellers have shorted a stock, the stock comes out with good news, and the price of the stock spikes by an excessive amount, because all the short sellers have to scramble to cover their positions by buying in their shares, often due to the fact that they are getting margin calls.

Potential short squeeze plays have several metrics for comparison purposes. One of the most popular metrics is the Short Interest Ratio, also known as the Days to Cover. What this measures is the number of days it would take the short sellers to cover their positions based on the average daily trading volume. The longer it would take to cover, the higher the ratio. Another analysis is the number of shares short as a percentage of float. The higher the percentage, the greater the chance that an upside shock would drive up the price.

The retailer sector has many short squeeze plays to choose from, whether it's retailing technology or retailing food. Here are some examples. Shown is the name of the company and the short interest ratio, in other words the number of days it would take the short sellers to cover their positions based on recent volume.

Roundy's (RNDY) 18.4

Safeway (SWY) 16.1

Saks (SKS) 12.8

RadioShack (RSH) 11.6

GameStop (GME) 7.6

Barnes & Noble (BKS) 7.3

J.C. Penney (JCP) 7.3

SUPERVALU INC. (SVU) 5.5

Any positive news could cause these stocks to skyrocket.

If you like interesting stock lists like this, check out the many free stock lists at WallStreetNewsNetwork.com.

Disclosure: Author didn't own any of the above at the time the article was written.