That was the number that scrolled across my screen after I sold shares on B. Riley Financial (RILY) back in April of 2024.
It was one of my biggest winners ever, turning $65 into $800 in just two days, live in my Daily Profits Live Trading Room.
So what exactly caused the move, and how can you prepare to take advantage of plays like this in the future?
That’s what I’ll be discussing with you today.
The Trade Setup
Before I got positioned on RILY, the market was picking up momentum after some oversold conditions. And I was looking for some stocks that had the potential to squeeze.
One of the main reasons RILY caught my attention is because the stock had a heavy short interest.
At the time I placed the trade, the short interest in RILY was 75%. After a recent monster rally, it has come down to 65%.
Let’s break it down step by step.
Short Interest: In the stock market, when someone believes that a particular stock’s price will decrease, they can engage in what’s called “short selling.” Here’s how it works:
They borrow shares of a stock from someone who owns it (typically through their broker).
They sell these borrowed shares on the market at the current price, hoping to buy them back later at a lower price.
If the price does indeed drop, they buy back the shares at the lower price and return them to the lender, pocketing the difference as profit.
High Short Interest: This simply refers to a situation where a large number of investors are engaging in short selling for a particular stock. So, a stock with high short interest means that there are many investors betting that its price will go down.
Short Squeeze: Now, imagine the opposite happens – instead of the stock price going down, it starts going up. When this occurs, it puts pressure on short sellers.
Here’s why:
As the stock price rises, short sellers start losing money because they sold shares at a lower price and need to buy them back at a higher price to return them.
Short sellers may start feeling the heat if the stock price rises significantly. They might cut their losses and buy back the shares they borrowed before the price goes even higher.
When many short sellers rush to buy back shares to cover their positions (known as “covering their shorts”), it creates additional demand for the stock, further driving its price up.
This sudden surge in buying activity, especially from short sellers trying to exit their positions, can lead to a rapid increase in the stock’s price, called a short squeeze.
If you don’t know the story, RILY has been under attack by short sellers, alleging the company committed fraud.
The stock declined from its last year’s high of $91.24 down to a low of $14.26 in February.
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The company filed its annual report, it showed minimal adjustments to its financial numbers. More importantly, the company confirmed by a second law firm, there was no wrongdoing.
That news sent the shorts scrambling, pushing it to a high of $35 yesterday.
Below you can see my pre-market plan I posted in the Daily Profits Live Trading Room:
Last Word
It’s hard to trade successfully if you come in with a bias. RILY was attacked by shorts for months. However, I let the price action and the chart dictate whether or not I should take a position.
As retail traders, we don’t have access to the same information as the pros on Wall Street. That’s why it’s critical that we base our decisions on price action.
For example, I had no clue that RILY would be releasing their annual report yesterday, but on a risk vs. reward basis, the trade made sense to me.
When you do follow the price action, sometimes you “get lucky.” I can’t tell you how many times I have bought call options on a strong chart, only to see the next day the company catches an upgrade from a Wall Street firm, sending the stock soaring.
YOUR ACTION PLAN
Trades like RILY are possible for every trader when they know what to look for, and I’m going to show you how to start finding buy opportunities like RILY starting next week.
It’s part of my “3-day Trading Challenge,” where the first place winner of my paper trading contest will win $2,500 in cash.
I’ve never done anything like this before, and I think it’s going to be a lot of fun.
New Highs and Sector Rotations: The S&P 500 and Dow both hit fresh closing records this week, even as the tech-heavy Nasdaq slipped.
The highs came as investors shift money away from tech and into sectors tied to the broader economy, with sectors like financials, materials, industrials and some consumer names are all doing more heavy lifting.
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This could be on a whole other level.
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Many investors earn lower returns than they should because they are far too pessimistic about the future.
That may sound surprising to those who read Monday’s column, where I detailed how government policies make things like houses, cars, groceries, and utilities increasingly unaffordable.
Yet the private sector makes things better and… increasingly affordable.
That sounds like a contradiction. But it’s not.
It is possible for goods to simultaneously become more expensive and more affordable.
To measure affordability, we need to compare the price of goods and services to hourly compensation (wages and benefits).
The resulting ratio is called the time price.
A time price is the length of time the average worker labors to afford something.
Prices are expressed in dollars and cents. But time prices are expressed in hours and minutes.
It’s possible for things to become more expensive in dollars, but cheaper in time.
Which is more meaningful? In our daily lives, time is our most limited and nonrenewable resource.
That’s why time prices matter.
And they reveal something stunning: most things have become dramatically more affordable over time.
Understand this key point: the CPI tells us if something has become more expensive.
But the time price tells us if it has become more affordable.
Time prices are an excellent way to measure increases or decreases in our abundance over time for three reasons:
Time prices cannot understate or overstate inflation since prevailing prices and wages are used at every point on the timeline.
Time prices are independent of currency fluctuations. (They can be measured in euros, yen, or any other currency.)
Time prices provide a standardized way of measuring changes in wellbeing.
In their eye-opening book, Superabundance, authors Marian L. Tupy and Gale L. Pooley measured the costs of 50 commodities between 1980 and 2020.
They didn’t just find that the time prices of some of them went down.
The time prices of all of them went down.
In fact, the average time price decline of those 50 commodities – including oil, natural gas, wheat, cotton, soybeans, beef, corn, pork, and sugar – was a whopping 75.2%.
Put differently, a blue-collar worker had to work 75% less to afford the same amount of these things.
Unless we’re at the gas pump or the grocery store, however, we don’t usually buy commodities. We buy finished goods.
Yet the time price decline in these was just as dramatic. And in many cases, more so.
Over the same 40-year period, the time price of a utensil set declined 51%, a dishwasher declined 62%, a washer declined 65%, men’s clothing declined 72%, a bicycle declined 74%, a vacuum declined 83%, and a food processor declined 86%.
This isn’t cherry-picking. It’s across the board.
And that’s just for blue-collar workers.
White-collar workers – especially those with a college degree – saw time prices drop even more dramatically because their incomes are higher and rose faster.
It’s impossible, of course, to measure the 40-year time price decline in things like laptops, smartphones, and flat-panel TVs because none of these were even imagined in 1980.
For example, how do you compare the average cost of a book in 1980 to the more than 10 million that are free to download today from Google’s digital library?
Nobody thinks about the cost of a long-distance phone call today. But growing up, I did.
In college, I could only afford to call from my school in South Carolina to my home in Virginia at night when AT&T offered lower rates.
Today, I routinely have FaceTime calls with friends overseas at no cost.
Over the last 50 years, music listeners have gone from vinyl records to 8-track tapes to cassettes to CDs to MP3 files to streaming.
Today you can listen to almost any song, anywhere, at any time for next to free.
Other products are not free but considerably more affordable when measured in hours worked.
In 1971, a pair of soft contact lenses cost $65, and a fitting by an eye doctor ran about $550, putting the total cost at $615. Unskilled workers earned about $2 an hour.
Today an eye exam is around $120, and lenses start at $200, putting the cost at $320. Unskilled workers earn around $16.51.
In other words, the time price has declined 84%.
In 1970, the price for a roundtrip airline ticket from New York to London was $550.
Blue-collar workers earned $3.93 an hour at the time. (In my family, the folks who spent so lavishly were viewed as members of the “jet set.”)
Today, the same flight has dropped to about $467 and blue-collar workers earn about $36.15. The time price has decreased 91%.
In 1972, you could book a seven-day cruise from Miami to the Caribbean for $240.
Blue-collar workers earned about $4.59 an hour at the time.
Today, you can book a seven-day cruise out of Port Canaveral for $549. For blue-collar workers who earn $36.15 an hour, the price has dropped more than 70%.
Apple introduced the Macintosh in 1984 at a retail price of $2,495.
Unskilled workers earned about $5 an hour at the time.
Today a new iMac sells for $1,299 and unskilled workers earn about $16.51 an hour.
The time price has decreased by 84.2%.
And the difference between a 2025 Mac and the 1984 Mac is like comparing a Lamborghini with a skateboard.
That’s time price abundance.
Not all categories saw time price declines. Healthcare, college tuition, and childcare – heavily regulated, heavily subsidized, and labor-intensive – have outpaced inflation.
These markets don’t benefit from the “economics of knowledge,” where producing multiple copies of a prototype costs less and less.
But even in those areas, alternatives are emerging:
Online education is dramatically cheaper and more flexible than traditional degrees.
AI in healthcare is improving diagnostics, streamlining care, and lowering costs.
Many elective procedures (Lasik, cosmetic surgery, dental implants) have dropped in price significantly – because they’re outside the insurance system and thus more exposed to market forces.
In my new book, I detail how things are likely to become even more affordable in the years ahead, as I’ll discuss in my next column.
Get ready to adjust your investment plan accordingly.
Good investing,
Alex
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5 High Short-Interest Stocks to Buy Before Q1 2026
By Thomas Hughes. Publication Date: 12/9/2025.
What You Need to Know
Many quality stocks with robust outlooks have been heavily shorted in the back half of 2025, setting them up to rebound in 2026.
AI demand, either for infrastructure or services, is a dominant theme.
This article examines five of the most-shorted stocks with potential to be squeezed and what might trigger the action.
JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) will kick off peak fiscal Q4 2025 reporting on Jan. 13, 2026, so there isn’t much time left to position for the season. The takeaway in early December is that many stocks with solid outlooks have been heavily shorted, leaving prices depressed and setting them up for potential rebounds next year.
Now is the time to start building exposure. This article examines five of the highest short-interest stocks on Wall Street, their earnings outlooks, and what might trigger a short squeeze in their share prices.
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Hims & Hers Health (NYSE: HIMS) came under pressure in early 2025 for understandable reasons: shifts in the GLP-1 market and service execution issues weighed on sentiment. By late 2025, however, the impact of those GLP-1 headwinds appears to have been temporary, and efforts to expand services and market penetration are gaining traction. The outlook for fiscal Q4 (FQ4) is for growth to slow into the high-20% range, but the bar is low and outperformance is likely. With short interest at 30%, a squeeze is quite possible.
Additionally, the company has been in talks with Novo Nordisk (NYSE: NVO) regarding the sale of the GLP-1 treatment Wegovy, and a share buyback authorization was recently approved. Management plans to repurchase $250 million of stock—about 3% of market cap—underscoring financial flexibility and confidence in the growth outlook.
Analysts have been raising price targets and issuing upgrades in early December, with the consensus implying roughly a 15% rebound. Positive results could push the stock toward consensus targets, above key moving averages, and back toward the highs set earlier in the year.
Applied Digital: Outperforms, Capacity Is Sold Out
Applied Digital (NASDAQ: APLD) appears to be in the early stages of a short-covering rally. Recent results from Applied Digital and GPU-maker NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) indicate that AI capacity is sold out and demand remains strong. The takeaway is that APLD’s optimistic forecasts are being validated and its longer-term outlook is improving. The company is on track to complete its second campus and move toward a third, which could lift revenue potential by roughly 50% once built out.
Short interest in APLD was north of 30% in late November and has likely come down since as the share price began to rally in early December, supported by improving analyst sentiment.
Among 13 analysts covering the name, the consensus rating is a Moderate Buy, and price targets have moved higher. The consensus still trails the market but has climbed materially over the past year; the high end of the range points to roughly 30% upside and a potential new all-time high.
SoundHound: 30% Short Interest and an Inflection Point Ahead
SoundHound (NASDAQ: SOUN) carried roughly 30% short interest as of late November. While some worry that earlier hype inflated expectations, underlying deal activity tells a different story.
The company is expanding its voice-activated AI services into new verticals and deepening penetration with existing clients, building momentum over recent quarters. Heading into 2026, SoundHound is approaching an inflection point where profitability appears achievable. The FQ4 release will give management a chance to clarify the path forward, and the update could be well received by the market.
The consensus expects revenue growth to slow but remain at a torrid pace of nearly 60%.
Super Micro Computer: Market Waiting for Proof
Super Micro Computer (NASDAQ: SMCI) has faced a string of challenges, including a recent weak report, leaving the market in a cautious, wait-and-see stance.
SMCI reported fiscal 2026 Q1 earnings on Nov. 4. Its guidance for FQ2 was about 2,500 basis points better than expectations, a signal that should prompt short-covering once the market fully digests it.
The likely catalyst will be stronger-than-expected AI and GPU demand showing up in the server business and guidance, pushing results above consensus and providing clear upside. In the meantime, analysts’ sentiment is coalescing around the consensus estimate, which implies about 35% upside in the stock.
MP Materials’ Market Follow-Through Is Likely Coming
MP Materials (NYSE: MP) saw an early-2025 price surge that signaled longer-term strength. The key question is when the broader market will follow through on that signal—likely in early 2026.
The company benefits from U.S. government support and, unlike many rare-earth hopefuls, is already generating revenue and profit rather than simply promising future production.
Short interest in MP is lower than some names on this list but still meaningful enough to accelerate a move higher when catalysts arrive. Analyst coverage is expanding, the consensus rating is a Moderate Buy, and the forecast implies about 30% upside.
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Editor’s Note: We’re passing this along because longtime analyst Whitney Tilson is raising a flag about Amazon that most people aren’t seeing.
While the headlines focus on layoffs and regulatory pressure, Tilson believes a very different story is taking shape — tied to a project Jeff Bezos has quietly funded for more than a decade.
We encourage you to get the full details below while there is still time.
Yes, the headlines have been brutal: the FTC’s $2.5 billion settlement… a fresh wave of layoffs… politicians lining up to call Amazon a monopoly or a tax cheat.
But while Wall Street is obsessing over these distractions, Amazon has quietly been preparing for the most important business shift in its history – a shift I believe will be revealed as early as on January 1.
Here’s what almost no one realizes:
For fourteen years, Jeff Bezos has been funding a technology most investors don’t even know exists. Bezos hasn’t shared this with the public but now, I believe he’s finally ready to roll his plan out to the masses.
If Bezos succeeds, Amazon won’t just dominate e-commerce or cloud computing. It could take the lead in a new $40 trillion market – one I could see becoming larger than AI, quantum computing, crypto, EVs, and robotics combined.
I’ve been here before.
Back in 2012, the media called Netflix “a train wreck.” Analysts mocked its price hikes. Its CEO Reed Hastings was being blasted by customers and investors alike. But I tuned out the noise, went on CNBC, and told everyone who would listen that it was the steal of the decade. Netflix went on to rise more than 15,000%.
What’s happening with Amazon today feels eerily similar.
But what I recommend you do about it may surprise you.
We shared details on five infrastructure stocks that are poised to 10X or more as America reshores industry…
And it’s already happening…
When the Pentagon took a stake in MP Materials, shares soared 50% in a day…
When Trump announced a potential deal with Lithium Americas – shares more than doubled in a single day…
When Great Northern Minerals announced a strategic critical minerals deal – shares soared 200% in a day…
And when Trump announced he’d take a stake in Trilogy Metals – shares exploded 260% in one day!
And one tiny mining stock – trading for under $10 – could be next in line for massive profits.
So if you’ve missed out on these America First winners so far – here’s your second chance.
This is the biggest trend for 2026, and you have a one-time chance to get ahead of it TODAY, with our top 5 America First stocks.
We’ll show you our research, and you’ll see for yourself why billionaire investors like JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, Palantir-backer Peter Thiel, Google CEO Eric Schmidt, along with Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and many others are going “all in” on America First stocks.
But, shares are already starting to take off.
Today may be your last shot at getting into our top 5 this cheap.
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