Stock market shorts are getting their faces ripped off

Shutterstock / Anton Ivanov With all three major US indexes hovering near record highs, it's been a great time to be a stock trader. Unless you're a short seller. In fact, thosewho bet on share price declines haven't felt this much pain in almost twoyears, with a Goldman Sachs basket of the most-shorted stocks in the Russell 3000 sitting at the highest since August 2015. In other words, the most popular short targets are doing exactly the opposite of what speculators want. But that doesn't mean ...