Where hedge funds are now betting on falling prices

Dusseldorf Hedge funds have positioned themselves before the start of the reporting season in Germany and are betting on falling prices for a number of stocks. This is shown by an evaluation by the Handelsblatt of data from the Federal Gazette, to which the professional investors, also known as short sellers, have to report their bets.

Accordingly, short sellers have increased their bets on falling prices for 35 stocks from the Dax, MDax or SDax since the beginning of January – i.e. for more than every fifth company of the three stock exchange measuring sticks. On the other hand, only 17 bets were reduced. Another 14 short bets remained unchanged. The actual number of positions is likely to be significantly larger, because only bets that exceed 0.5 percent of the freely tradable shares are published.