Top Tech Short-Squeeze Plays for May

According to Jim Cramer, short-sellers of banks and oils are being destroyed due to the stocks' strong moves to the upside. But financial and petroleum companies aren't the only ones rising. The tech stocks have also done extremely well, also in part because of short squeezes.

A short squeeze occurs when short-sellers quickly buy in shares of the stock in order to cover their bearish positions, driving the price of stocks up sharply. The ratio for measuring short-squeeze opportunities is the short ratio, which is the number of days it would take the short sellers to cover their position based on recent average daily volume.

Stockpickr has reviewed the technology stocks with high short interest and market caps of more than $500 and compiled a portfolio of the Technology Short-Squeeze Plays for May.

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