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When this market stampedes those who make negative bets it can be spectacularly positive for individual stocks and the averages as a whole, like we saw today. Dow gained 69 points. S p climbed 2. 9 and nasdaq advancing 2 to a rec high we dont spend that much time talking about short sellers on the show. If you want to understand why the nasdaq hit those unwanted levels, its the shorts that made it happen. Theyve been a huge accelerant to the nasdaq rally. Theyre great at getting out Fraudulent Companies and overvalued stocks and sometimes going against the grain of the entire stock market when they think the consensus is wrong. Every now and then theyll attack stocks en masse, aang tackle so to speak. If the stocks fail to go down or manage to rally, the shorts can create a stampede when they throw in the towel and begin to unwind their positions by buying back the stocks they sold to close out the trade. That panic buying e ....