A Short Covering Secret Contrarians Should Know

Subscribers to Chart of the Week received this commentary on Sunday, January, 11. We’ve spent a lot of oxygen lately on how great 2025 was for stocks. That’s not very contrarian of us. Luckily, Senior Quantitative Analyst Rocky White has provided contrarians with the perfect table to start out 2026 with. Rocky had a theory that stocks down big in a year and highly shorted would have a good chance of a short-term rally after the New Year, because short sellers with a significant profit will wait until just a ...