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The GameStop short squeeze, starting in January 2021, was a short squeeze occurring on shares of GameStop, [19] [20] primarily triggered by the Reddit forum WallStreetBets. [21] [22] This squeeze led to the share price reaching an all-time intraday high of US$483 on January 28, 2021 on the NYSE.
A GameStop store in 2014. GameStop, an American chain of brick-and-mortar video game stores, had struggled in the years leading up to the short squeeze due to competition from digital distribution services, as well as the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, which reduced the number of people who shopped in-person.
Short squeezes have been making and breaking investors for a century. One of the greatest short squeezes in history started on a SubReddit, where hundreds of thousands of retail investors drove ...
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In a short squeeze, the dynamics are a bit different. Large institutional investors are more likely to be short a stock, and the resulting pop can be much more violent due to supply and demand.
The short interest ratio (also called days-to-cover ratio) [1] represents the number of days it takes short sellers on average to cover their positions, that is repurchase all of the borrowed shares. It is calculated by dividing the number of shares sold short by the average daily trading volume, generally over the last 30 trading days.
In this article, we discuss the 10 biggest short squeezes of all time. If you want to skip our detailed analysis of these short squeezes, go directly to the 5 Biggest Short Squeezes of All Time.
Many different accordions were developed in Europe throughout the 19th century, and exported worldwide. Although accordions are documented in South Louisiana as early as the mid-century, early models would not have caught on with Cajun musicians due to their tuning in A or F and hence the incompatibility with the fiddle. [2]