ajtj99's Market Pulse

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NYSE is registering over the last years time frame as much as 55% Shorts to all sales, spikes in this data occur routinely.

If the number really is this high, wouldn't that imply that the players in this game are the big institutions, a.k.a. the 'smart money'? If that's so, how can you be sure that they don't have a strategy for covering all these shorts in a way that will hurt those trying to play against them? Isn't it a commonplace strategy for 'little guys' to look at the COT data and try to trade with the commercials? If they've been shorting all the way up, doesn't it make sense to short along with them? These questions are, admittedly, asked without a deep knowledge of what data you're looking at, what kind of time frames you're looking to trade in, etc.