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In the stock market, a short squeeze is a rapid increase in the price of a stock owing primarily to an excess of short selling of a stock rather than underlying fundamentals. A short squeeze occurs when demand has increased relative to supply because short sellers have to buy stock to cover their short positions.
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.
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.
Metaphorically, a short squeeze is investors rushing out of a crowded theater after someone yells “fire.”
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 ...
[2] [3] During the 2021 GameStop short squeeze, Meme Man was popularized by users of the subreddit r/wallstreetbets as the face of the "stonks" meme. [ 4 ] The first usage of him as a recurring character was on the Facebook page of the artist "Special meme fresh" starting in 2014, and soon spread to become "one of the only consistent stylistic ...
The epic retail investor-led short squeeze of video game retailer GameStop in 2021 that resulted in billions of dollars in losses of former hedge fund Melvin Capital put the focus, at least in ...
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.