These Small Banks Are the Winners

Updated from 6:59 a.m. EDT

Bank stocks have been dropping substantially over the last year. In the last couple of weeks, they had a really big drop, especially money center banks, creating a short-squeeze opportunity.

A short squeeze takes place when a stock's short-sellers cover their positions quickly when good news boosts the price of the stock. This short-covering often drives the stock price even higher. The metric for measuring short-squeeze plays is the short ratio, which represents the number of days it would take a stock's short-sellers to cover their positions based on the stock's recent average daily volume.

With this in mind, here at Stockpickr we've compiled a portfolio of the top money center bank stock short-squeeze plays, including Scotiabank(BNS Quote), TCF Financial(TCF Quote) and Toronto Dominion(TD Quote) ...