Those short traders have been squeezed badly and have been forced to cover their big losing bets this week, which has only driven gold futures prices still higher.
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Short term traders will be watching AAPL, which will certainly be in play today.
And in short, traders appear to be implementing this approach right now.
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This is a paradise for short term traders but warrants caution on the part of investors who hope to hold these stocks for any length of time.
That said, even if the stock does continue to gain over the balance of the week, waiting for a pullback to take prices lower before buying remains the most prudent approach for short term traders and active investors alike.
For short-term traders, NFLX is clearly vulnerable to a short-term reversal, and chasing the stock higher is a temptation worth avoiding.
The very low volume indicated it was also due to the activities of other short-term traders, including program-trading firms and flash-traders, in there every day doing their job of making short-term trades for quick profits.
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Perhaps short-term traders could play a bounce up to them and then look to re-short those levels.
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Action looks positive to start the week, but short-term traders should use tight stops.
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The decline may also be prompting short selling from traders looking to profit from price dips, Grady said.
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Since putting in its low, PLAY has given short-term traders an opportunity to make a quick and handsome profit.
Yes, the markets are driven by short-term traders, but they always have been.
If it eventually comes back up to test the 50-day average, short-term traders could ride JAS for a 10% gain.
Coming into their earnings release, Coinstar had about 28% of its shares held short as some traders doubted their business model.
Short-term traders will certainly be watching those names closely for volatility today.
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Still, the dip in the gold price appeared to be mainly liquidation from short-term traders who had expected more aggressive Fed action.
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Short-term traders are choosing to cut down risk and wait for greater clarity in the market before making big bets on market direction.
They have a lot built into their structure that make them great trading tools for very short-term traders, but terrible investments for longer-term investors.
Further, he added, gold previously had been sideways for some time, which may have led to some short-term traders exiting to capture any profits.
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Naked short-selling also intensifies bear raids by making it easier for traders to short stocks, since they do not actually borrow the shares in advance.
Other stocks in this space that short-term traders and active investors may want to keep an eye on include stocks like Joy Global Inc. (NYSE: JOY).
Commerzbank said while investors in exchange-traded funds are buying gold, they are holding back in the futures market, showing a difference in viewpoint between long-term investors and short-term traders.
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Some of the very volatile coal stocks like Alpha Natural Resources ( ANR) and Arch Coal ( ACI) have had some very dramatic, but brief rallies for nimble short-term traders.
The action in Tesla is the latest illustration of the power of short-term traders known as "day traders, " even though some hold positions for days or even weeks before moving on.
This can cause the most damage for short-term traders, as a market can look pretty positive from the hourly or daily charts, but quite negative based on weekly or monthly data.
Investors have decided they should become high-velocity, short-term traders.
Short-term traders who had been watching the broader market climb deeper into overbought territory in recent days may be among the few market participants gratified by the late sell-off on Thursday.
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Part of the appeal of these instruments is in their structure, which can provide short-term traders with enough of a built-in edge to make some of the better-conceived volatility trading strategies all the more appealing.
George Gero, vice president and precious-metals strategist with RBC Capital Markets Global Futures, said he expects some buying to cover short positions from traders who do not want to hang onto bearish gold bets over the weekend.
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Trading short-term oversold and still trading far nearer to long-term highs than long-term lows, current weakness in Sprint is likely both to attract short-term traders looking for a bounce as well as investors who have been waiting for a sale in the stock to build a larger, longer-term position.
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