Top Short-Squeeze Plays for December

Stock quotes in this article: FBP , HBAN , SBP , IMN , WMT , WFT , MMM  

These days, when you see a sharp rise in the stock market, you can't necessarily attribute it to the bullishness of investors. There's a good chance it's due to short-covering or a short squeeze.

A short squeeze takes place when short-sellers quickly cover their bearish positions on optimistic news, which can move the price of the stock up sharply. The metric for measuring short-squeeze opportunities is the short ratio, also known as the "days-to-cover ratio," which is the number of days it would take the short-sellers to cover their positions based on recent average daily volume of the stock.

Stockpickr has reviewed the heavily shorted New York Stock Exchange stocks and developed a list of the top NYSE short-squeeze plays for the month of December.

To read more, visit Stockpickr.com.

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