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Vertical Fortunes is designed to help you bag HUGE profits from the markets’ most hated stocks. And this web page

will help you hunt for other hated stocks on your own.

How can you tell if investors “hate” a stock? It’s pretty simple…

Twice a month, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) publishes a comprehensive list of all the short

positions on publicly traded stocks in the United States.

A short position is a bet that a stock’s price will fall. The higher the short interest, the more investors are expecting

the company’s shares to tumble. So FINRA’s numbers can tell us the names of companies that investors are actively

rooting against.

Better still, this data is available to the public for free!

For your convenience, I’ve compiled a list of the stock market’s most heavily shorted companies below.

Before you dig in, though, let me explain what each column means...

First is the short interest, the number of a company’s shares that are currently sold short in the market.

In the next column you’ll find short interest as a percentage of outstanding shares. The bigger the percentage,

the stronger the short position.

Days to cover tells you how many days it would take for all the short sellers to close out their positions.

Remember, the only way short sellers can close their positions is by buying the stock. But finding enough people

willing to sell their stock can be tough, especially if the price is rising. It could take days for all the short sellers to buy

enough shares to exist

So the bigger the days to cover, the bigger the short squeeze — and the profits — will be!

Finally, the average daily volume column shows you roughly how many shares of a stock trade every day in the markets.

That’s important because stocks with low liquidity tend to get squeezed faster than highly liquid stocks.

Keep in mind, this information is to help you find opportunities on your own. While we’ll cover some of these companies

in Vertical Fortunes, you’ll need to use your best judgement to develop plays on the rest.

But armed with this list, you can easily get started trading hated stocks for a chance at surefire profits!

Check the list out below to get started… and stick with Vertical Fortunes for our specific recommendations.

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wall street’s most “hated” stocks

Company Symbol Short Interest % of Float Days to Cover Avg daily volume

Rite Aid Corporation RAD 168,149,070 17.1 19 9,616,065

SPDR S & P 500 ETF Trust SPY 168,657,701 ... 3 57,454,786

Chesapeake Energy Corp. CHK 159,520,695 16.5 6 24,634,884

J.C. Penney Company, Inc. JCP 138,924,091 47.6 19 7,387,815

Sprint Corporation S 136,808,209 25.4 17 7,958,663

Alibaba Group Holding Limited BABA 128,010,292 5.2 9 15,385,609

iShares MSCI Emerging Markets EEM 116,792,129 ... 2 60,244,905

Weatherford International, plc WFT 124,262,426 11.6 10 11,070,845

Snap Inc. SNAP 110,403,074 23.1 8 14,021,195

General Electric Company GE 130,169,254 1.3 2 52,396,105

Bank of America Corporation BAC 111,820,805 1.1 2 52,854,807

Ford Motor Company F 120,214,310 2.6 4 27,876,537

CenturyLink, Inc. CTL 91,852,977 8.1 14 6,221,202

iShares Russell 2000 ETF IWM 87,099,032 ... 5 18,932,006

AT & T Inc. T 101,270,273 1.2 2 40,849,690

Ensco PLC ESV 85,974,405 18.5 6 14,546,607

AK Steel Holding Corp. AKS 81,895,570 25.3 8 9,965,749

iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Cor HYG 84,941,211 ... 6 12,030,526

SPDR S & P Oil & Gas Exploration XOP 70,755,817 ... 5 14,619,496

Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellscha DB 72,332,965 ... 16 4,656,884

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Source: FactSet