While most of the US daytrading class is now in a furore over the "discovery" that most shorted stocks tend to outperform - to put it mildly - when a bunch of autists rams illiquid, heavily shorted names up the collective behind of hedge funds which "legally" collude during idea dinners to put on a basket of shorts, hence why stocks like GME can end up with a synthetic short that is higher than the entire float, none of this should be news to regular readers, as the theme of going long the most shorted names is one we first presented and discussed as far back as 2013:

Presenting The Best Trading Strategy In This Market: Buy The Most Hated Stocks, Short The Most Widely Held

We then reiterated this strategy in 2014...

The Most Beloved, And Hated, Hedge Fund Stocks Are...

... 2015...

Stocks Soar To Best Week In A Year On "Mother Of All Short Squeezes"

Presenting The Top 50 Hedge Fund Longs And Shorts

... 2016...

After Three Years, This Remains The Best Trading Strategy

... 2017

These Are The Top 50 Hedge Fund Long And Short Positions

... 2019

These Are The 50 Most Popular Hedge Fund Longs And Shorts

... 2020

Top Hedge Fund Longs Suffer Historic Crash As Top Shorts Outperform... And Much More Pain Is Coming

And so on.