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Support.com Stock More Than Triples in a Week, in a Squeeze Play<blockquote>Support.com 股价一周内上涨两倍多，处于挤压状态</blockquote>

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Most of us wouldn't be able to time when large institution pump and dump.","highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"favoriteSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/816556325","repostId":1187676878,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1187676878","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1630367803,"share":"https://www.laohunote.com/m/news/1187676878?lang=zh_CN&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-08-31 07:56","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Support.com Stock More Than Triples in a Week, in a Squeeze Play<blockquote>Support.com 股价一周内上涨两倍多，处于挤压状态</blockquote>","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1187676878","media":"The Wall Street Journal","summary":"Retail traders have helped push the technical-support company’s stock up more than 1,500% in 2021.\n\n","content":" Retail traders have helped push the technical-support company’s stock up more than 1,500% in 2021. Individual investors have found their next short-squeeze target in little-known software company<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/SPRT\">Support.com</a>Inc.SPRT38.21%<blockquote>2021 年，零售商帮助这家技术支持公司的股票上涨了 1500% 以上。个人投资者在一家鲜为人知的软件公司找到了下一个做空目标<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/SPRT\">支持网</a>SPRT38.21%</blockquote> Shares of the company have more than tripled in the past week, pushing the stock to finish Monday at $36.39. That gives Support.com, a technical- and customer-support provider, a 38% gain for the day and a more than 1,500% jump for the year.<blockquote>该公司股价在过去一周上涨了两倍多，推动该股周一收于 36.39 美元。这使得技术和客户支持提供商 Support.com 当天上涨了 38%，全年上涨了 1,500% 以上。</blockquote> Some retail traders are piling into Support.com, scooping up shares and placing bullish wagers on the stock. One of the reasons why: Support.com has elevated interest from bearish investors known as short sellers. <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/ISBC\">Investors</a> on social-media platforms have recently discussed the potential for setting up a short squeeze.<blockquote>一些散户交易员纷纷涌入 Support.com，买入股票并对该股进行看涨押注。原因之一：Support.com 引起了被称为卖空者的看跌投资者的兴趣。<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/ISBC\">投资者</a>社交媒体平台最近讨论了建立空头挤压的可能性。</blockquote> Short sellers are investors who bet against a company by borrowing shares and selling them, hoping they can buy them back later at a lower price. But these short sellers can be burned by such wagers when the stock rises. They are then forced to buy back stock to try to limit their losses. Buying more stock can put further pressure on the stock price in what is known as a short squeeze.<blockquote>卖空者是指通过借入股票并出售股票来做空一家公司的投资者，希望以后能够以较低的价格回购这些股票。但当股票上涨时，这些卖空者可能会被这样的赌注烧死。然后，他们被迫回购股票，以限制损失。购买更多股票会给股价带来进一步的压力，这就是所谓的挤空。</blockquote> <img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/27957c2e688f6c659c8a748e89323a48\" tg-width=\"345\" tg-height=\"459\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\">This year, individual investors have crowded into companies with elevated levels of short-selling activity, as part of a larger strategy to reap big gains and turn upside down a market that many say has long been stacked against them. More than 20 million new retail brokerage accounts are estimated to have been created since the start of 2020, according to JMP Securities. Most notably, individual investorshave tried to force short squeezesin companies includingGameStopCorp.andAMC Entertainment HoldingsInc.this year. They have also driven higher stocks ranging from car-rental companyHertz Global HoldingsInc.tolaser-scanning technologyfirmMicroVisionInc.<blockquote>今年，个人投资者纷纷涌入卖空活动较多的公司，作为获得巨额利润并扭转许多人认为长期以来对他们不利的市场的更大战略的一部分。根据JMP证券的数据，自2020年初以来，估计已经创建了超过2000万个新的零售经纪账户。最值得注意的是，自今年以来，个人投资者试图迫使 GameStop Corp. 和 AMC Entertainment Holdings. 等公司进行空头挤压。它们还推动了汽车租赁公司 Hertz Global HoldingsInc.to 激光扫描技术公司 MicrovisionInc. 等股票的上涨。</blockquote> The recent run-up in Support.com shares marks a striking turnaround for the company, which started the year trading just above $2. The last time the company traded above Monday’s closing price of $36.39 was 2004. For the quarter ended June 30, the company reported total revenue of roughly $8.5 million and a net loss of nearly $800,000.<blockquote>Support.com 股价最近的上涨标志着该公司发生了惊人的转变，该公司年初的交易价格略高于 2 美元。该公司上一次交易价格高于周一收盘价 36.39 美元是在 2004 年。截至 6 月 30 日的季度，该公司报告总收入约为 850 万美元，净亏损近 80 万美元。</blockquote> In March, Support.com announced a merger agreement with Greenidge Generation Holdings Inc., a bitcoin-mining company, in a deal that is expected to close this quarter. As part of the agreement, Support.com will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Greenidge, according to a news release issued at the time, Support.com is expected to provide Greenidge with an estimated $33 million of additional cash. Upon completion of the deal, Support.com stockholders and option holders will collectively own about 8% of the combined company’s common stock.<blockquote>今年 3 月，Support.com 宣布与比特币矿业公司 Greenidge Generation Holdings Inc. 达成合并协议，预计将于本季度完成。作为协议的一部分，Support.com将成为Greenidge的全资子公司，根据当时发布的新闻稿，Support.com预计将向Greenidge提供约3300万美元的额外现金。交易完成后，Support.com 股东和期权持有人将共同拥有合并后公司约 8% 的普通股。</blockquote> <img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/8bee31315a4663a2d2211a2609479333\" tg-width=\"357\" tg-height=\"454\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\">In mid-to-late August, short interest in Support.com has hovered around 60% of the stock’s free float, according to data from analytics firm S3 Partners. In the past week, a small degree of short-covering—or buying back shares—has occurred, data from S3 shows, with short interest declining by nearly 3 percentage points, or roughly 280,000 shares, between Monday and Friday of last week.<blockquote>根据分析公司 S3 Partners 的数据，8 月中下旬，Support.com 的空头权益徘徊在该股自由流通量的 60% 左右。S3 的数据显示，过去一周，出现了小程度的空头回补（或回购股票），上周周一至周五期间，空头兴趣下降了近 3 个百分点，即约 28 万股。</blockquote> The volume of short-covering likely isn’t enough to move Support.com’s share price significantly higher, said Ihor Dusaniwsky, head of predictive analytics at S3, especially given the elevated trading volume that Support.com has recently experienced. Between Aug. 20 and Aug. 27, an average of 77.81 million Support.com shares changed hands each day, according to Dow Jones Market Data, versus an average trading volume of 3.98 million shares this year through the end of July.<blockquote>S3 预测分析主管伊霍尔-杜萨尼夫斯基（Ihor Dusaniwsky）说，空头回补的数量可能不足以使 Support.com 的股价大幅上涨，尤其是考虑到 Support.com 最近的交易量有所增加。根据道琼斯市场数据，8 月 20 日至 8 月 27 日期间，平均每天有 7781 万股 Support.com 股票易手，而今年截至 7 月底的平均交易量为 398 万股。</blockquote> As a result, Mr. Dusaniwsky said, much of the rally has been driven by share purchases and options activity.<blockquote>杜萨尼夫斯基表示，因此，股价上涨在很大程度上是由股票购买和期权活动推动的。</blockquote> “It’s momentum on the long side, where you get group, herd mentality into a name,” he said. Much of the recent activity has likely been driven by individual investors, he said, but he added that “good hedge funds don’t let high volatility situations go to waste.”<blockquote>“他说：”这是长边的势头，你可以把群体、从众的心态融入到一个名字中。他说，最近的大部分活动可能是由个人投资者推动的，但他补充说，“好的对冲基金不会让高波动性的情况白白浪费”。</blockquote> Retail investors purchased a net $38.1 million of Support.com stock in the week ended Friday, according to data from Vanda Research’s VandaTrack, making it the 15th-most purchased stock by individual investors for the week. Still, that buying activity was just a fraction of whatother retail-investor favoritesreceived. AMC attracted a net $192.2 million of inflows in the week ended Friday, while Nvidia Corp. received a net $136 million of buying during the same period, too.<blockquote>根据 Vanda Research 的 VandaTrack 数据，在截至周五的一周内，散户投资者净购买了 3810 万美元的 Support.com 股票，成为本周个人投资者购买的第 15 只股票。尽管如此，这种购买活动只是其他散户投资者最爱的一小部分。在截至周五的一周内，AMC 吸引了 1.922 亿美元的净流入，而 Nvidia Corp. 同期也获得了 1.36 亿美元的净买入。</blockquote> As they have with many other short-squeeze targets this year, traders rushed to the options market to place wagers on Support.com’s stock. The jump in Support.com’s share price coincided with heavy options trading, with around triple the volume there typically is in the stock, according to Cboe Global Markets data.<blockquote>与今年许多其他逼空目标一样，交易员们纷纷涌向期权市场，对 Support.com 的股票下注。根据芝加哥期权交易所（Cboe Global Markets）的数据，Support.com 股价的上涨恰逢期权交易活跃，期权交易量约为该股通常交易量的三倍。</blockquote> Bullish call options tied to the shares jumping to $85 were among the most popular contracts changing hands on Monday. Calls confer the right to buy shares at certain prices, later in time. Other popular bets included put options tied to the shares falling to $15. Puts confer the right to sell shares.<blockquote>与股价跃升至 85 美元相关的看涨看涨期权期权是周一最受欢迎的易手合约之一。评级授予在以后以特定价格购买股票的权利。其他受欢迎的押注包括与股价跌至 15 美元挂钩的看跌期权。看跌期权赋予出售股票的权利。</blockquote> At times, the heavy options activity in individual stocks has helped exacerbate rallies in the shares themselves.<blockquote>有时，个股的大量期权活动会加剧股票本身的上涨。</blockquote>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Support.com Stock More Than Triples in a Week, in a Squeeze Play<blockquote>Support.com 股价一周内上涨两倍多，处于挤压状态</blockquote></title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 12.5px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nSupport.com Stock More Than Triples in a Week, in a Squeeze Play<blockquote>Support.com 股价一周内上涨两倍多，处于挤压状态</blockquote>\n</h2>\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\nThe Wall Street Journal2021-08-31 07:56\n\n</h4>\n</header>\n<article>\n Retail traders have helped push the technical-support company’s stock up more than 1,500% in 2021. Individual investors have found their next short-squeeze target in little-known software company<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/SPRT\">Support.com</a>Inc.SPRT38.21%<blockquote>2021 年，零售商帮助这家技术支持公司的股票上涨了 1500% 以上。个人投资者在一家鲜为人知的软件公司找到了下一个做空目标<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/SPRT\">支持网</a>SPRT38.21%</blockquote> Shares of the company have more than tripled in the past week, pushing the stock to finish Monday at $36.39. That gives Support.com, a technical- and customer-support provider, a 38% gain for the day and a more than 1,500% jump for the year.<blockquote>该公司股价在过去一周上涨了两倍多，推动该股周一收于 36.39 美元。这使得技术和客户支持提供商 Support.com 当天上涨了 38%，全年上涨了 1,500% 以上。</blockquote> Some retail traders are piling into Support.com, scooping up shares and placing bullish wagers on the stock. One of the reasons why: Support.com has elevated interest from bearish investors known as short sellers. <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/ISBC\">Investors</a> on social-media platforms have recently discussed the potential for setting up a short squeeze.<blockquote>一些散户交易员纷纷涌入 Support.com，买入股票并对该股进行看涨押注。原因之一：Support.com 引起了被称为卖空者的看跌投资者的兴趣。<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/ISBC\">投资者</a>社交媒体平台最近讨论了建立空头挤压的可能性。</blockquote> Short sellers are investors who bet against a company by borrowing shares and selling them, hoping they can buy them back later at a lower price. But these short sellers can be burned by such wagers when the stock rises. They are then forced to buy back stock to try to limit their losses. Buying more stock can put further pressure on the stock price in what is known as a short squeeze.<blockquote>卖空者是指通过借入股票并出售股票来做空一家公司的投资者，希望以后能够以较低的价格回购这些股票。但当股票上涨时，这些卖空者可能会被这样的赌注烧死。然后，他们被迫回购股票，以限制损失。购买更多股票会给股价带来进一步的压力，这就是所谓的挤空。</blockquote> <img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/27957c2e688f6c659c8a748e89323a48\" tg-width=\"345\" tg-height=\"459\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\">This year, individual investors have crowded into companies with elevated levels of short-selling activity, as part of a larger strategy to reap big gains and turn upside down a market that many say has long been stacked against them. More than 20 million new retail brokerage accounts are estimated to have been created since the start of 2020, according to JMP Securities. Most notably, individual investorshave tried to force short squeezesin companies includingGameStopCorp.andAMC Entertainment HoldingsInc.this year. They have also driven higher stocks ranging from car-rental companyHertz Global HoldingsInc.tolaser-scanning technologyfirmMicroVisionInc.<blockquote>今年，个人投资者纷纷涌入卖空活动较多的公司，作为获得巨额利润并扭转许多人认为长期以来对他们不利的市场的更大战略的一部分。根据JMP证券的数据，自2020年初以来，估计已经创建了超过2000万个新的零售经纪账户。最值得注意的是，自今年以来，个人投资者试图迫使 GameStop Corp. 和 AMC Entertainment Holdings. 等公司进行空头挤压。它们还推动了汽车租赁公司 Hertz Global HoldingsInc.to 激光扫描技术公司 MicrovisionInc. 等股票的上涨。</blockquote> The recent run-up in Support.com shares marks a striking turnaround for the company, which started the year trading just above $2. The last time the company traded above Monday’s closing price of $36.39 was 2004. For the quarter ended June 30, the company reported total revenue of roughly $8.5 million and a net loss of nearly $800,000.<blockquote>Support.com 股价最近的上涨标志着该公司发生了惊人的转变，该公司年初的交易价格略高于 2 美元。该公司上一次交易价格高于周一收盘价 36.39 美元是在 2004 年。截至 6 月 30 日的季度，该公司报告总收入约为 850 万美元，净亏损近 80 万美元。</blockquote> In March, Support.com announced a merger agreement with Greenidge Generation Holdings Inc., a bitcoin-mining company, in a deal that is expected to close this quarter. As part of the agreement, Support.com will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Greenidge, according to a news release issued at the time, Support.com is expected to provide Greenidge with an estimated $33 million of additional cash. Upon completion of the deal, Support.com stockholders and option holders will collectively own about 8% of the combined company’s common stock.<blockquote>今年 3 月，Support.com 宣布与比特币矿业公司 Greenidge Generation Holdings Inc. 达成合并协议，预计将于本季度完成。作为协议的一部分，Support.com将成为Greenidge的全资子公司，根据当时发布的新闻稿，Support.com预计将向Greenidge提供约3300万美元的额外现金。交易完成后，Support.com 股东和期权持有人将共同拥有合并后公司约 8% 的普通股。</blockquote> <img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/8bee31315a4663a2d2211a2609479333\" tg-width=\"357\" tg-height=\"454\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\">In mid-to-late August, short interest in Support.com has hovered around 60% of the stock’s free float, according to data from analytics firm S3 Partners. In the past week, a small degree of short-covering—or buying back shares—has occurred, data from S3 shows, with short interest declining by nearly 3 percentage points, or roughly 280,000 shares, between Monday and Friday of last week.<blockquote>根据分析公司 S3 Partners 的数据，8 月中下旬，Support.com 的空头权益徘徊在该股自由流通量的 60% 左右。S3 的数据显示，过去一周，出现了小程度的空头回补（或回购股票），上周周一至周五期间，空头兴趣下降了近 3 个百分点，即约 28 万股。</blockquote> The volume of short-covering likely isn’t enough to move Support.com’s share price significantly higher, said Ihor Dusaniwsky, head of predictive analytics at S3, especially given the elevated trading volume that Support.com has recently experienced. Between Aug. 20 and Aug. 27, an average of 77.81 million Support.com shares changed hands each day, according to Dow Jones Market Data, versus an average trading volume of 3.98 million shares this year through the end of July.<blockquote>S3 预测分析主管伊霍尔-杜萨尼夫斯基（Ihor Dusaniwsky）说，空头回补的数量可能不足以使 Support.com 的股价大幅上涨，尤其是考虑到 Support.com 最近的交易量有所增加。根据道琼斯市场数据，8 月 20 日至 8 月 27 日期间，平均每天有 7781 万股 Support.com 股票易手，而今年截至 7 月底的平均交易量为 398 万股。</blockquote> As a result, Mr. Dusaniwsky said, much of the rally has been driven by share purchases and options activity.<blockquote>杜萨尼夫斯基表示，因此，股价上涨在很大程度上是由股票购买和期权活动推动的。</blockquote> “It’s momentum on the long side, where you get group, herd mentality into a name,” he said. Much of the recent activity has likely been driven by individual investors, he said, but he added that “good hedge funds don’t let high volatility situations go to waste.”<blockquote>“他说：”这是长边的势头，你可以把群体、从众的心态融入到一个名字中。他说，最近的大部分活动可能是由个人投资者推动的，但他补充说，“好的对冲基金不会让高波动性的情况白白浪费”。</blockquote> Retail investors purchased a net $38.1 million of Support.com stock in the week ended Friday, according to data from Vanda Research’s VandaTrack, making it the 15th-most purchased stock by individual investors for the week. Still, that buying activity was just a fraction of whatother retail-investor favoritesreceived. AMC attracted a net $192.2 million of inflows in the week ended Friday, while Nvidia Corp. received a net $136 million of buying during the same period, too.<blockquote>根据 Vanda Research 的 VandaTrack 数据，在截至周五的一周内，散户投资者净购买了 3810 万美元的 Support.com 股票，成为本周个人投资者购买的第 15 只股票。尽管如此，这种购买活动只是其他散户投资者最爱的一小部分。在截至周五的一周内，AMC 吸引了 1.922 亿美元的净流入，而 Nvidia Corp. 同期也获得了 1.36 亿美元的净买入。</blockquote> As they have with many other short-squeeze targets this year, traders rushed to the options market to place wagers on Support.com’s stock. The jump in Support.com’s share price coincided with heavy options trading, with around triple the volume there typically is in the stock, according to Cboe Global Markets data.<blockquote>与今年许多其他逼空目标一样，交易员们纷纷涌向期权市场，对 Support.com 的股票下注。根据芝加哥期权交易所（Cboe Global Markets）的数据，Support.com 股价的上涨恰逢期权交易活跃，期权交易量约为该股通常交易量的三倍。</blockquote> Bullish call options tied to the shares jumping to $85 were among the most popular contracts changing hands on Monday. Calls confer the right to buy shares at certain prices, later in time. Other popular bets included put options tied to the shares falling to $15. Puts confer the right to sell shares.<blockquote>与股价跃升至 85 美元相关的看涨看涨期权期权是周一最受欢迎的易手合约之一。评级授予在以后以特定价格购买股票的权利。其他受欢迎的押注包括与股价跌至 15 美元挂钩的看跌期权。看跌期权赋予出售股票的权利。</blockquote> At times, the heavy options activity in individual stocks has helped exacerbate rallies in the shares themselves.<blockquote>有时，个股的大量期权活动会加剧股票本身的上涨。</blockquote>\n<div class=\"bt-text\">\n\n\n 来源：<a href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/support-com-stock-nearly-triples-in-a-week-in-a-squeeze-play-11630350757?mod=markets_lead_pos3\">The Wall Street Journal</a>\n为提升您的阅读体验，我们对本页面进行了排版优化\n\n\n</div>\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"SPRT":"Support.com"},"source_url":"https://www.wsj.com/articles/support-com-stock-nearly-triples-in-a-week-in-a-squeeze-play-11630350757?mod=markets_lead_pos3","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1187676878","content_text":"Retail traders have helped push the technical-support company’s stock up more than 1,500% in 2021.\n\nIndividual investors have found their next short-squeeze target in little-known software companySupport.comInc.SPRT38.21%\nShares of the company have more than tripled in the past week, pushing the stock to finish Monday at $36.39. That gives Support.com, a technical- and customer-support provider, a 38% gain for the day and a more than 1,500% jump for the year.\nSome retail traders are piling into Support.com, scooping up shares and placing bullish wagers on the stock. One of the reasons why: Support.com has elevated interest from bearish investors known as short sellers. Investors on social-media platforms have recently discussed the potential for setting up a short squeeze.\nShort sellers are investors who bet against a company by borrowing shares and selling them, hoping they can buy them back later at a lower price. But these short sellers can be burned by such wagers when the stock rises. They are then forced to buy back stock to try to limit their losses. Buying more stock can put further pressure on the stock price in what is known as a short squeeze.\nThis year, individual investors have crowded into companies with elevated levels of short-selling activity, as part of a larger strategy to reap big gains and turn upside down a market that many say has long been stacked against them. More than 20 million new retail brokerage accounts are estimated to have been created since the start of 2020, according to JMP Securities. Most notably, individual investorshave tried to force short squeezesin companies includingGameStopCorp.andAMC Entertainment HoldingsInc.this year. They have also driven higher stocks ranging from car-rental companyHertz Global HoldingsInc.tolaser-scanning technologyfirmMicroVisionInc.\nThe recent run-up in Support.com shares marks a striking turnaround for the company, which started the year trading just above $2. The last time the company traded above Monday’s closing price of $36.39 was 2004. For the quarter ended June 30, the company reported total revenue of roughly $8.5 million and a net loss of nearly $800,000.\nIn March, Support.com announced a merger agreement with Greenidge Generation Holdings Inc., a bitcoin-mining company, in a deal that is expected to close this quarter. As part of the agreement, Support.com will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Greenidge, according to a news release issued at the time, Support.com is expected to provide Greenidge with an estimated $33 million of additional cash. Upon completion of the deal, Support.com stockholders and option holders will collectively own about 8% of the combined company’s common stock.\nIn mid-to-late August, short interest in Support.com has hovered around 60% of the stock’s free float, according to data from analytics firm S3 Partners. In the past week, a small degree of short-covering—or buying back shares—has occurred, data from S3 shows, with short interest declining by nearly 3 percentage points, or roughly 280,000 shares, between Monday and Friday of last week.\nThe volume of short-covering likely isn’t enough to move Support.com’s share price significantly higher, said Ihor Dusaniwsky, head of predictive analytics at S3, especially given the elevated trading volume that Support.com has recently experienced. Between Aug. 20 and Aug. 27, an average of 77.81 million Support.com shares changed hands each day, according to Dow Jones Market Data, versus an average trading volume of 3.98 million shares this year through the end of July.\nAs a result, Mr. Dusaniwsky said, much of the rally has been driven by share purchases and options activity.\n“It’s momentum on the long side, where you get group, herd mentality into a name,” he said. Much of the recent activity has likely been driven by individual investors, he said, but he added that “good hedge funds don’t let high volatility situations go to waste.”\nRetail investors purchased a net $38.1 million of Support.com stock in the week ended Friday, according to data from Vanda Research’s VandaTrack, making it the 15th-most purchased stock by individual investors for the week. Still, that buying activity was just a fraction of whatother retail-investor favoritesreceived. AMC attracted a net $192.2 million of inflows in the week ended Friday, while Nvidia Corp. received a net $136 million of buying during the same period, too.\nAs they have with many other short-squeeze targets this year, traders rushed to the options market to place wagers on Support.com’s stock. The jump in Support.com’s share price coincided with heavy options trading, with around triple the volume there typically is in the stock, according to Cboe Global Markets data.\nBullish call options tied to the shares jumping to $85 were among the most popular contracts changing hands on Monday. Calls confer the right to buy shares at certain prices, later in time. Other popular bets included put options tied to the shares falling to $15. Puts confer the right to sell shares.\nAt times, the heavy options activity in individual stocks has helped exacerbate rallies in the shares themselves.","news_type":1,"symbols_score_info":{"SPRT":0.9}},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":815,"commentLimit":10,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"symbols":[],"verified":2,"subType":0,"readableState":1,"langContent":"EN","currentLanguage":"EN","warmUpFlag":false,"orderFlag":false,"shareable":true,"causeOfNotShareable":"","featuresForAnalytics":[],"commentAndTweetFlag":false,"andRepostAutoSelectedFlag":false,"upFlag":false,"length":74,"subscribersOnly":false,"subscribersOnlyAccessible":false,"xxTargetLangEnum":"ORIG"},"commentList":[],"isCommentEnd":true,"isTiger":false,"isWeiXinMini":false,"url":"/m/post/816556325"}