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Seven signs you should short sell a stock
Feb 18, 2009 07:50 PM UTC

Timothy Sykes

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Symbol	Sentiment	Start	Return	Closed
SAY	n/a
GOOG		02/18/09	-63.19%	--
DELL		02/18/09	-83.68%	--
C	n/a
BAC		02/18/09	-246.55%	--
AMZN		02/18/09	-107.78%	--
CVX		02/18/09	-17.13%	--
MS		02/18/09	-60.91%	--
GM		02/18/09	+100.00%	--
HANS		02/18/09	+0.25%	--
GE		02/18/09	-42.42%	--
SLB		02/18/09	-69.49%	--
AAPL		02/18/09	-111.44%	--

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Filed under: Google (GOOG), Apple Inc (AAPL), Dell (DELL), General Electric (GE), Amazon.com (AMZN), General Motors (GM), Hansen Natural (HANS), Short stories, Schlumberger Limited (SLB), Bank of America (BAC), Chevron Corp (CVX), Morgan Stanley (MS), Stocks to Sell

These are not the only signs, just a few examples of when to bet against a company, all of which would have worked out great over the past year:

1. Right when management admits a massive fraud over many years, Satyam Computer Services (SAY)

2. Companies lie about the health of management: Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL)

3. Arrogance and greed blinds management to excessive risk-taking: General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE), Citigroup (NYSE: C), Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS), Bank of America (NYSE: BAC), General Motors Corp. (NYSE: GM)-pick an over-leveraged financial, any financial...and yes, considering all the messy financial instruments these companies took on, they are all financial stocks.

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