{"id":47904,"date":"2025-09-16T20:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T20:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=47904"},"modified":"2025-09-16T20:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T20:32:10","slug":"options-corner-heres-why-mara-holdings-deserves-to-be-on-your-short-squeeze-watchlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=47904","title":{"rendered":"Options Corner: Here&#8217;s Why MARA Holdings Deserves To Be On Your Short-Squeeze Watchlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>For cryptocurrency investors, the blistering rise of major digital assets has been nothing short of remarkable. Last month, the total market capitalization of all virtual currencies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/08\/47096365\/bitcoin-touches-12200-as-total-crypto-market-cap-nears-4-2-trillion\">reached nearly $4.2 trillion<\/a>. However, blockchain enterprises like <strong>MARA Holdings Inc<\/strong> (NASDAQ:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/stock\/MARA#NASDAQ\">MARA<\/a>) have not fared as well. Since the start of this year, MARA stock is up less than 3%. For context, the venerable Dow Jones is up roughly 8% during the same frame.<\/p>\n<p>Still, speculators may not want to give up on MARA just yet. According to the latest information, the blockchain miner&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/MARA\/short-interest\">short interest stands at 35.6%<\/a> of its float, which is massive. To be sure, no one number exists that officially separates the threshold between high short interest from a normal reading. That said, Charles Schwab <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schwab.com\/learn\/story\/whats-short-squeeze-and-why-does-it-happen\">notes<\/a> that a figure of 10% or higher could indicate a warning sign.<\/p>\n<p>Intuitively, securities that attract bearish activity tend to have a cloud hanging over them. However, extremely elevated short interest is also risky for the bears. That&#8217;s because a true short position is a credit-based transaction. Essentially, the sold securities that initiate such a trade are loaned on credit. Therefore, either way, the lending broker must be made whole \u2014 and that&#8217;s where both the trouble and opportunity lie.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, short sellers expect the targeted security to fall in value. If so, the red ink allows these speculators to buy back the shorted securities at a discounted price and return them to the broker, with the difference pocketed as profit. However, an unexpected rally may force speculators to exit early, forcing a massive wave of buy-to-close transactions.<\/p>\n<p>The end result? That would be a &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/options\/25\/09\/47703510\/mara-stock-short-squeeze-contrarian-bull-spread\" alt=\"Options\" corner: here why mara holdings deserves to be on your short-squeeze watchlist>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For cryptocurrency investors, the blistering rise of major digital assets has been nothing short of remarkable. Last month, the total market capitalization of all virtual currencies reached nearly $4.2 trillion. However, blockchain enterprises like MARA Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:MARA) have not fared as well. Since the start of this year, MARA stock is up less than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-47904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}