How far will the iron ore short squeeze run?

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Charlie Aitken will probably be patting himself on the back today. On Friday morning he said buy iron ore:

“Obviously, the most beaten up sector in Australian equities is pure play iron ore stocks,” says Bell Potter Executive Director Charlie Aitken. “Yet, from a trading perspective they should be bought. All I know is every time the AFR runs a front page article about how much less Andrew Forrest is worth on paper that it’s usually the short-term bottom in iron ore prices and a solid, tradeable rally in Fortescue(FMG) follows.”

“If we get any stability, or dare I say it, actually a rally in iron ore prices, pure play stocks such as Fortescue and BC Iron (BCI) will bounce +30% to +50% in quick time. That is why they should both be bought for a trade on RSI’s that suggest they are massively oversold.”

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.