re: Weekly Stock Market Plays/Thoughts - March/April

well you can't have 178% of the float short. The float is just the number of shares available for public trading and that is giving the percentage of those shares which are shorted. You probably wont see that number over 50%. Shorting stock is just borrowing shares hoping to sell back later at a cheaper price. So you think the price is going down. Personally I wouldn't ever short stocks... because you have to use margin to do it.

For stock purposes a low float means high volatility, so you can use the float to measure risk to an extent.