{"id":14816,"date":"2011-09-08T10:45:41","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T14:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=14816"},"modified":"2016-09-20T09:16:51","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T13:16:51","slug":"short-interest-ratio-big-changes-charting-the-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/08\/short-interest-ratio-big-changes-charting-the-trend\/","title":{"rendered":"Short Interest Ratio: BIG CHANGES &#8211; Charting The Trend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the latest reporting period, short interest activity has seen a health rebound. The first chart shows a sector by sector breakdown of the percent change in the shares sold short between July 31 &#8211; August 15, 2011. The biggest change was <!--more-->industrials, which happen to be one of the hardest hit sectors over the past few weeks<a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/siratio_allshares_09062011-1.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14859\" title=\"shortinterest_09062011\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/shortinterest_09062011-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"325\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the Short Interest Ratio has dropped as trading volume has picked up. That is a bad sign as investors who are looking to press their positions have more ability to do so as there is greater liquidity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/siratio_09062011-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14860\" title=\"siratio_09062011\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/siratio_09062011-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"363\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Below are the trends for the same series as above.<a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/sishares_09062011-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14862\" title=\"sishares_09062011\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/sishares_09062011-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"546\" height=\"389\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/siratio_allshares_09062011-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14861\" title=\"siratio_allshares_09062011\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/siratio_allshares_09062011-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"404\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the latest reporting period, short interest activity has seen a health rebound. The first chart shows a sector by sector breakdown of the percent change in the shares sold short between July 31 &#8211; August 15, 2011. The biggest change was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,42],"tags":[483,490],"class_list":["post-14816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-markets","category-stocks","tag-markets","tag-stocks","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}