Stalking Highfliers for Short Sales

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR) got obliterated in Monday's session, dropping more than 10% after hedge fund manager David Einhorn disclosed his bearish position on the caffeine king. The steep decline illustrated that not all growth plays are bulletproof, despite the October recovery. In fact, other horror stories may be in their latter stages of development.

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR) -- Daily Source: eSignal View Chart »

The high-beta favorite was already in trouble prior to the big knockout punch. The daily chart shows the rally topped out in September, yielding a deep pullback and early-October bounce at $82.40. The upside ended just one week later, although the major indices ticked higher for another three sessions. This bearish divergence came into play during Monday's breakdown....512 more words left in this article. To read them, just click below and try Real Money FREE for 14 days.

Read the full story and get access to the Real Money Pro trading floor.

There’s no substitute for a trading floor to get great ideas, so Jim Cramer created a better one at Real Money and blogs there exclusively. We then added legendary hedge fund manager, Doug Kass, with his exclusive Daily Diary and best investing ideas. Staffed with more than 4 dozen investing pros, money managers, journalists and analysts, Real Money Pro gives you a flood of opinions, analysis and actionable trading advice found nowhere else, and allows you to interact directly with each expert.

Already a Subscriber? Please login.

Except as otherwise indicated, quotes are delayed. Quotes delayed at least 20 minutes for all exchanges. Market Data provided by Interactive Data. Company fundamental data provided by Morningstar. Earnings and ratings provided by Zacks. Mutual fund data provided by Valueline. ETF data provided by Lipper. Powered and implemented by Interactive Data Managed Solutions.

TheStreet Ratings updates stock ratings daily. However, if no rating change occurs, the data on this page does not update. The data does update after 90 days if no rating change occurs within that time period.

IDC calculates the Market Cap for the basic symbol to include common shares only. Year-to-date mutual fund returns are calculated on a monthly basis by Value Line and posted mid-month.