December 2003 Short Interest for My Holdings
This is the December update of heavily shorted stocks in my portfolio.
(Short interest data from http://online.wsj.com/documents/shortint.htm, 12/15/2003 compared to 11/15/2003)
OCA Last Month 17,974,528; This Month 18,876,158; 5.02% increase; Short Interest 17.5 days (Average Daily Volume = 1,078,914)
PPD Last Month 7,661,665; This Month 8,201,904; 7.05% increase; Short Interest 79.7 days (Average Daily Volume = 102,919)
FDP Last Month 4,605,073; This Month 4,622,424; 0.38% increase; Short Interest 11.9 days (Average Daily Volume = 387,833)

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December Stock Quantity Avg Cost This Month Value % of Portfolio Last Month MOM Change % Change Since Entry Target % of Target FDP 148 $ 26.04 $ 23.83 $ 3,526.84 12% $ 26.67 ... Read
As I blogged days before, I need to enable margin and option trading in my AmeriTrade account in order to take some profit of the recent RJR frenzy without incurring short-term capital gains. I sent out the application last week, but unfortunately AmeriTrade rejected my ... Read
This is the November update of heavily shorted stocks in my portfolio. (Short interest data from http://online.wsj.com/documents/shortint.htm, 11/15/2003 compared to 10/15/2003) Read
