Ihor Dusaniwsky

Short squeezes are one of the most powerful short-term market catalysts and can generate huge surges in share price. A short squeeze occurs when a heavily shorted stock rises enough that it begins to force its short sellers to close their position by buying the stock. That short covering volume...

Chinese stocks have been on fire in the past month, with the Ishares China Large-Cap Etf (NYSE: FXI) more than doubling the return of the S&P 500 in that time. But according to a new report from S3 Partners analyst Ihor Dusaniwsky, short sellers are taking advantage of the bullish momentum to...

A buying frenzy in electric vehicles stocks has Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) shares up 62.1% and Nikola Corporation (NASDAQ: NKLA) shares up 60% since Nikola first began trading on June 4. While EV investors are making a killing off the scramble for EV stocks, S3 Partners analyst Ihor Dusaniwsky...

Wirecard AG (OTC: WRCDF) shares have collapsed in the past two days after the company said it could not account for $2.1 billion in cash that was listed on its balance sheet. On Thursday, Wirecard shares plummeted more than 60%, and the stock dropped another 45% on Friday morning after the company...

On Monday, Hertz Global Holdings Inc (NYSE: HTZ) announced it would be selling up to $500 million in common stock. In the same filing, the bankrupt company said those shares of stock are unlikely to ultimately hold any value unless higher priority debtholders are fully paid, and short sellers seem...

Electric truck maker Nikola Corporation (NASDAQ: NKLA) has gained nearly 70% since going public via a reverse merger on June 4. The stock’s performance in the last two weeks is certainly impressive, but a spike in borrow rates suggests the big move may just be getting started. Major ...

Biotech stocks are often high-risk, high-reward investments that have binary outcomes based on one or a handful of drug or device candidates in development. Shorting these types of stocks can be very risky due to the potential for unexpected positive testing data, regulatory approvals and buyouts....

The S&P 50o has come roaring back in the past two months, but there are still plenty of skeptics when it comes to the recent rally. There is currently $168.2 billion in aggregate domestic ETF short interest, according to S3 Partners analyst Ihor Dusaniwsky. Over the past month, Dusaniwsky said...

Benzinga’s Take Biotech stocks are often high-risk, high-reward investments that have binary outcomes based on one or a handful of drug or device candidates in development. Shorting these types of stocks can be very risky due to the potential for unexpected positive testing data, regulatory...

Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd (NYSE: NCLH) shares crashed 22.4% on Tuesday after the company said it now has “serious doubt” it can navigate the coronavirus (COVID-19) shutdown and avoid bankruptcy. Norwegian is now down 80.2% overall in 2020 and has been a home run trade for short...

Airline short sellers have had a huge year in 2020. Airline stocks have crashed and burned in the wake of the coronavirus (COVID-19) travel shutdowns, and news that Warren Buffett completely exited his airline positions has now boosted airline shorts’ year-to-date profits above $4 billion,...

In the past two days, WTI crude oil prices have stabilized after turning negative earlier in the week, and the United States Oil Fund LP (NYSE: USO) was up another 9.9% on Thursday. Oil investors have gotten hammered so far in 2020 as a pricing war between Saudi Arabia and Russia, a sharp drop in...

So far, 2020 has been an extremely difficult year for investors. However, oil stock short sellers have been making a killing thanks to a pricing war between Saudi Arabia and Russia, a global travel shutdown due to COVID-19 and U.S. storage capacity approaching 100%. The Numbers S3 Partners analyst...

One of the most powerful tradable market events is a short squeeze, so traders are always on the lookout for the next short squeeze candidate. S3 Partners analyst Ihor Dusaniwsky has just released a list of potential short squeeze stocks based on their high borrow rates. A stock borrow fee is the...

Despite a rising number of U.S. coronavirus (COVID-19) cases and deaths, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE: SPY) has rallied 12.6% in the past two weeks. The country may not yet be through the worst of the coronavirus outbreak, but investors may already see a light at the end of the tunnel. If...