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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.
Metaphorically, a short squeeze is investors rushing out of a crowded theater after someone yells “fire.”
r/wallstreetbets, also known as WallStreetBets or WSB, is a subreddit where participants discuss stock and option trading. It has become notable for its colorful jargon, aggressive trading strategies, stories of extreme gains and losses acquired in the stock market, and for playing a major role in the GameStop short squeeze that caused significant losses for a number of US hedge funds and ...
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.
There’s a fundamental mathematical proposition that makes shorting stocks risky. One of the smaller — but still substantial — risks is that of a “short squeeze.” When a heavy number of ...
A GameStop store in a mall. In September 2019, Gill, under the username "u/DeepFuckingValue", posted on the subreddit r/wallstreetbets a screenshot of a trade consisting of a roughly $53,000 long position in GameStop; [8] Gill's Reddit posts and YouTube videos argued (through both fundamental and technical analysis) that the stock was undervalued. [3]
Short-selling is a trading technique that allows investors to profit on a stock's decline in price. The short-seller borrows the stock today, immediately sells it, and agrees to buy it back and ...