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What Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC

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What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are ...

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JGSC
·2021-10-13
Big or small
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JamesfromSG
·2021-10-13
This is no different from punting in casinos for small players like me. So difficult to guess the next move.
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woonws
·2021-10-13
Useful to know, but isnt this old news?
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SamYYL
·2021-10-13
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RyanT2021
·2021-10-13
#hodl to the moon
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Residue
·2021-10-13
Tell me more 👍🏻
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- 滚股怪:
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MHh
·2021-10-13
Oops
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anthonywhite
·2021-10-13
This article is plain FUD. While it’s true that shortsqueeze underscore some of the basics for GME and AMC. This is not the entire full picture.The ‘GME squeeze’ has occurred on Jan2021, yet why is the stock still trading at the current priceand undergoing constant fluctuation and oscillation? Many people labeled it as meme stocks and that the companies are fundamentally out of touched.But how many of them do dive deeper to the 13f fillings and all? Do you all even knew that GameStop has a new change of board, CEO and chairman just this year? That GameStop went on a hiring blitz attracting and poaching many talents fromFAANG and beyond? That Gamestop have paid off all debt and that they have a coffer of $1b in their warchest to expand into digital fulfilment centres.GameStop is b
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- setia100:
  👍 TQVM... something men in the mainstreet didn't drill deep into it🤭
  2021-10-13
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- AaronJe:
  😄gme allowed retail investors to defeat institutional investors for the first time.
  2021-10-13
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CIG
·2021-10-13
Besides the Delta, Gamma squeeze should not be ignored.
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DMC8
·2021-10-13
Like pls
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財神發
·2021-10-13
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nanehz07
·2021-10-13
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Foxie
·2021-10-13
Isit squeezing again?
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- JarenSin:
  yes of course
  2021-10-13
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TendousTendy
·2021-10-13
is happening* short squeeze is still on.Unless you have a reason why the stock is still not back to $5? [捂嘴]
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RTWL
·2021-10-13
Buy more gme? Got it 🚀
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EagleE
·2021-10-13
Good to know, great article. Thanks for sharing.
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koolgal
·2021-10-13
Great article on short squeeze but it is definitely not for the faint hearted! 👍😊
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- JJ918:
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  2021-10-13
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- 滚股怪:
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- koolgal:
  Thanks 👍😉
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老Uncle
·2021-10-13
i only know what is squeeze orange. ya la drink orange juice la 😗😗
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  2021-10-13
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- 无忧9696:
  I don’t know anything ah 🌸🌸🌸 Just don’t want to get either Squeezed or play that Squid Game la 😛😛😛
  2021-10-13
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- 无忧9696回复老Uncle:
  You are very naughty hor hor hor 😛😛😛
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HENRYCSC
·2021-10-13
AMC [Smile]
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Alykrunch
·2021-10-13
I think this is a caution for shorting these stocks, but at the same time, for new entries to beware that the increase is not based on the rationaleundamentals of the stock so don’t put everything into one basket
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- Alykrunch:
  The stocks mentioned in the article. To do Your own research and not base on public sentiments that may be pure hype
  2021-11-02
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- PSG2010:
  "this" is for what? 😳 "these stocks" are which one?
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They borrow shares and sell them, with the intent of buying them back at lower prices.\nThis is mostly done by institutional investors, like hedge funds, given the risks and the margin required.\nAnd there are big risks. Stocks can theoretically go up infinitely. So a trader who is short can face theoretically infinite losses.\nSome stocks attract very high short interest, which can be viewed as the amount of shares sold short as a percentage of float, or how much stock has been issued that is available for trading.\nThe problem comes if the stock prices starts to rise quickly. Those that are short the stock will likely receive a margin call. They either have to put more money up to secure their position or close their positions.\nIf they choose to — or are forced to — close their position, they are buying the stock to close out their position. This can push the price higher and force other short sellers to do the same. This creates a reinforcing loop of buying and pushing the price higher. This is the short squeeze, as those short the market get \"squeezed\" out.\nShort Squeeze Stocks: GME\nThis is definitely part of what was happening in GameStop(GME) stock. In August of 2020, GME stock was trading for around 4.\nShares steadily climbed higher to close out 2020 just under 20 on the back of some big name investors taking stakes in the company. This attracted the short sellers, notably some big hedge funds. Then, on Jan. 13, the stock jumped to hit a high of almost 40 on huge volume.\nThat was surely the start of the short squeeze. That 40 level held for about a week. On Jan. 22, the stock jumped again, trading above 70 on the biggest volume day up to that point.\nThe next day the stock hit a high of almost 160 with similar action the next day. Then on Jan. 27 the stock doubled again, trading up to 380. The Jan. 28 high was 483.\nWhile short squeezes are nothing new, this action is unprecedented. 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It turned to Steven Cohen of Point72 Capital and Chicago-based Citadel to bail it out.\nThe short squeeze is usually something inflicted by one hedge fund on another.\nThis is really the first time we have seen such trading instigated by a band of retail traders.\nOptions Trading Is Also A Big Factor\nAnother piece of this story's plot is the fact that much of the trading in GME and other names like AMC Entertainment(AMC) and BlackBerry(BB) is actually taking place in the options market.\nBullish call buying instead of buying the stock is attractive here because of the leverage it provides and the fact that the positions are limited risk.\nCalls are contracts that give the right to buy the underlying stock for a given price (strike price) until the expiration date.\nThe most that can be lost is the premium paid for the calls.\nBuying calls requires much less capital, so bigger positions can be taken by small traders.\nThis actually adds to the short squeeze effect.\nWhen retail traders buy calls, it is market makers that sell them.\nThe market makers don't want the risk of being short calls, so they do something called delta hedging.\nWhat Is Delta Hedging, And Why It Matters In A Short Squeeze\nDelta hedging calls requires the market makers to buy stock. And because of the nature of calls, when the price of the underlying stock goes up, the market makers have to buy more stock to stay hedged.\nWe might call this the call option squeeze.\nThe problem is that these moves are not based on any fundamental changes in the stocks.\nNot much has changed for GME stock since it was a $4 stock, and certainly not since it was a $16 stock.\nBrokerage firms are very concerned about the volatility of these moves, as they know they may face losses if customers can't cover positions. They started limiting the positions that can be taken in some of these names.\nThat news came on Jan. 28, which saw GameStop stock price range from over 500 to below 115.\nThis is a trade you wanted to watch out for. 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This year, we have seen a number of stocks make ","content":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are contributing to these gargantuan moves, but one is surely the classic short squeeze.\nWhile there are some new factors at play in the markets today, the short squeeze has been around as long as shorting stock.\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze\nHere is how the short squeeze works. If traders think a stock's price is going lower, they canshort the stock. They borrow shares and sell them, with the intent of buying them back at lower prices.\nThis is mostly done by institutional investors, like hedge funds, given the risks and the margin required.\nAnd there are big risks. Stocks can theoretically go up infinitely. So a&nbsp;trader who is short&nbsp;can face theoretically infinite losses.\nSome stocks attract&nbsp;very high short interest, which can be viewed as the amount of shares sold short as a percentage of float, or how much stock has been issued that is available for trading.\nThe problem comes if the stock prices starts to rise quickly. Those that are short the stock will likely receive a margin call. They either have to put more money up to secure their position or close their positions.\nIf they choose to — or are forced to — close their position, they are buying the stock to close out their position. This can push the price higher and force other short sellers to do the same. This creates a reinforcing loop of buying and pushing the price higher. This is the short squeeze, as those short the market get \"squeezed\" out.\nShort Squeeze Stocks: GME\nThis is definitely part of what was happening in&nbsp;GameStop(GME) stock. In August of 2020, GME stock was trading for around 4.\nShares steadily climbed higher to close out 2020 just under 20 on the back of some big name investors taking stakes in the company. This attracted the short sellers, notably some big hedge funds. Then, on Jan. 13, the stock jumped to hit a high of almost 40 on huge volume.\nThat was surely the start of the short squeeze. That 40 level held for about a week. On Jan. 22, the stock jumped again, trading above 70 on the biggest volume day up to that point.\nThe next day the stock hit a high of almost 160 with similar action the next day. Then on Jan. 27 the stock doubled again, trading up to 380. The Jan. 28 high was 483.\nWhile short squeezes are nothing new, this action is unprecedented. The action is certainly partly stock buying by the Reddit group wallstreetbets.\nAnd while many are cheering that the little retail traders are beating up the big institutional shorts, it is pretty clear that other institutions are also in on this buying. Stories have popped up about Michael Burry's gains on GME stock and Elon Musk was tweeting about it.\nHedge Fund Losses\nThere are some big losses in this squeeze.\nTwo funds in particular have been hard hit. Citron Research and Melvin Capital have reportedly suffered huge losses.\nMelvin is down 30% in 2021 on the back of a GME stock short position. It turned to Steven Cohen of Point72 Capital and Chicago-based Citadel to bail it out.\nThe short squeeze is usually something inflicted by one hedge fund on another.\nThis is really the first time we have seen such trading instigated by a band of retail traders.\nOptions Trading Is Also A Big Factor\nAnother piece of this story's plot is the fact that much of the trading in GME and other names like&nbsp;AMC Entertainment(AMC) and&nbsp;BlackBerry(BB) is actually taking place in the&nbsp;options market.\nBullish call buying instead of buying the stock is attractive here because of the leverage it provides and the fact that the positions are limited risk.\nCalls are contracts that give the right to buy the underlying stock for a given price (strike price) until the expiration date.\nThe most that can be lost is the premium paid for the calls.\nBuying calls requires much less capital, so bigger positions can be taken by small traders.\nThis actually adds to the short squeeze effect.\nWhen retail traders buy calls, it is market makers that sell them.\nThe market makers don't want the risk of being short calls, so they do something called delta hedging.\nWhat Is Delta Hedging, And Why It Matters In A Short Squeeze\nDelta hedging calls requires the market makers to buy stock. And because of the nature of calls, when the price of the underlying stock goes up, the market makers have to buy more stock to stay hedged.\nWe might call this the call option squeeze.\nThe problem is that these moves are not based on any fundamental changes in the stocks.\nNot much has changed for GME stock since it was a $4 stock, and certainly not since it was a $16 stock.\nBrokerage firms are very concerned about the volatility of these moves, as they know they may face losses if customers can't cover positions. They started limiting the positions that can be taken in some of these names.\nThat news came on Jan. 28, which saw GameStop stock price range from over 500 to below 115.\nThis is a trade you wanted to watch out for. While some hedge funds were hurt and some retail traders made fortunes — at least on paper — this still may end badly.\nThe helium holding these stocks up would not last forever.","source":"lsy1610449120050","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>What Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-10-13 09:24 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220>investors</a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\nWhat is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are ...\n\n<a href=\"https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"GME":"游戏驿站","AMC":"AMC院线"},"source_url":"https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1107758297","content_text":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are contributing to these gargantuan moves, but one is surely the classic short squeeze.\nWhile there are some new factors at play in the markets today, the short squeeze has been around as long as shorting stock.\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze\nHere is how the short squeeze works. If traders think a stock's price is going lower, they canshort the stock. They borrow shares and sell them, with the intent of buying them back at lower prices.\nThis is mostly done by institutional investors, like hedge funds, given the risks and the margin required.\nAnd there are big risks. Stocks can theoretically go up infinitely. So a trader who is short can face theoretically infinite losses.\nSome stocks attract very high short interest, which can be viewed as the amount of shares sold short as a percentage of float, or how much stock has been issued that is available for trading.\nThe problem comes if the stock prices starts to rise quickly. Those that are short the stock will likely receive a margin call. They either have to put more money up to secure their position or close their positions.\nIf they choose to — or are forced to — close their position, they are buying the stock to close out their position. This can push the price higher and force other short sellers to do the same. This creates a reinforcing loop of buying and pushing the price higher. This is the short squeeze, as those short the market get \"squeezed\" out.\nShort Squeeze Stocks: GME\nThis is definitely part of what was happening in GameStop(GME) stock. In August of 2020, GME stock was trading for around 4.\nShares steadily climbed higher to close out 2020 just under 20 on the back of some big name investors taking stakes in the company. This attracted the short sellers, notably some big hedge funds. Then, on Jan. 13, the stock jumped to hit a high of almost 40 on huge volume.\nThat was surely the start of the short squeeze. That 40 level held for about a week. On Jan. 22, the stock jumped again, trading above 70 on the biggest volume day up to that point.\nThe next day the stock hit a high of almost 160 with similar action the next day. Then on Jan. 27 the stock doubled again, trading up to 380. The Jan. 28 high was 483.\nWhile short squeezes are nothing new, this action is unprecedented. The action is certainly partly stock buying by the Reddit group wallstreetbets.\nAnd while many are cheering that the little retail traders are beating up the big institutional shorts, it is pretty clear that other institutions are also in on this buying. Stories have popped up about Michael Burry's gains on GME stock and Elon Musk was tweeting about it.\nHedge Fund Losses\nThere are some big losses in this squeeze.\nTwo funds in particular have been hard hit. Citron Research and Melvin Capital have reportedly suffered huge losses.\nMelvin is down 30% in 2021 on the back of a GME stock short position. It turned to Steven Cohen of Point72 Capital and Chicago-based Citadel to bail it out.\nThe short squeeze is usually something inflicted by one hedge fund on another.\nThis is really the first time we have seen such trading instigated by a band of retail traders.\nOptions Trading Is Also A Big Factor\nAnother piece of this story's plot is the fact that much of the trading in GME and other names like AMC Entertainment(AMC) and BlackBerry(BB) is actually taking place in the options market.\nBullish call buying instead of buying the stock is attractive here because of the leverage it provides and the fact that the positions are limited risk.\nCalls are contracts that give the right to buy the underlying stock for a given price (strike price) until the expiration date.\nThe most that can be lost is the premium paid for the calls.\nBuying calls requires much less capital, so bigger positions can be taken by small traders.\nThis actually adds to the short squeeze effect.\nWhen retail traders buy calls, it is market makers that sell them.\nThe market makers don't want the risk of being short calls, so they do something called delta hedging.\nWhat Is Delta Hedging, And Why It Matters In A Short Squeeze\nDelta hedging calls requires the market makers to buy stock. And because of the nature of calls, when the price of the underlying stock goes up, the market makers have to buy more stock to stay hedged.\nWe might call this the call option squeeze.\nThe problem is that these moves are not based on any fundamental changes in the stocks.\nNot much has changed for GME stock since it was a $4 stock, and certainly not since it was a $16 stock.\nBrokerage firms are very concerned about the volatility of these moves, as they know they may face losses if customers can't cover positions. They started limiting the positions that can be taken in some of these names.\nThat news came on Jan. 28, which saw GameStop stock price range from over 500 to below 115.\nThis is a trade you wanted to watch out for. While some hedge funds were hurt and some retail traders made fortunes — at least on paper — this still may end badly.\nThe helium holding these stocks up would not last forever.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"CN"},{"id":822820419,"gmtCreate":1634116158671,"gmtModify":1634118578627,"author":{"id":"4090044065782350","authorId":"4090044065782350","name":"JamesfromSG","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d251750cfb493127443c3b9990000f69","vip":1,"crmLevel":4,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"4090044065782350","authorIdStr":"4090044065782350"},"htmlText":"This is no different from punting in casinos for small players like me. So difficult to guess the next move.&nbsp;","listText":"This is no different from punting in casinos for small players like me. So difficult to guess the next move.&nbsp;","text":"This is no different from punting in casinos for small players like me. So difficult to guess the next move.","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/822820419","repostId":1107758297,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1107758297","pubTimestamp":1634088266,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1107758297?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-10-13 09:24","market":"us","language":"en","title":"What Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1107758297","media":"investors","summary":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make ","content":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are contributing to these gargantuan moves, but one is surely the classic short squeeze.\nWhile there are some new factors at play in the markets today, the short squeeze has been around as long as shorting stock.\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze\nHere is how the short squeeze works. If traders think a stock's price is going lower, they canshort the stock. They borrow shares and sell them, with the intent of buying them back at lower prices.\nThis is mostly done by institutional investors, like hedge funds, given the risks and the margin required.\nAnd there are big risks. Stocks can theoretically go up infinitely. So a&nbsp;trader who is short&nbsp;can face theoretically infinite losses.\nSome stocks attract&nbsp;very high short interest, which can be viewed as the amount of shares sold short as a percentage of float, or how much stock has been issued that is available for trading.\nThe problem comes if the stock prices starts to rise quickly. Those that are short the stock will likely receive a margin call. They either have to put more money up to secure their position or close their positions.\nIf they choose to — or are forced to — close their position, they are buying the stock to close out their position. This can push the price higher and force other short sellers to do the same. This creates a reinforcing loop of buying and pushing the price higher. This is the short squeeze, as those short the market get \"squeezed\" out.\nShort Squeeze Stocks: GME\nThis is definitely part of what was happening in&nbsp;GameStop(GME) stock. In August of 2020, GME stock was trading for around 4.\nShares steadily climbed higher to close out 2020 just under 20 on the back of some big name investors taking stakes in the company. This attracted the short sellers, notably some big hedge funds. Then, on Jan. 13, the stock jumped to hit a high of almost 40 on huge volume.\nThat was surely the start of the short squeeze. That 40 level held for about a week. On Jan. 22, the stock jumped again, trading above 70 on the biggest volume day up to that point.\nThe next day the stock hit a high of almost 160 with similar action the next day. Then on Jan. 27 the stock doubled again, trading up to 380. The Jan. 28 high was 483.\nWhile short squeezes are nothing new, this action is unprecedented. The action is certainly partly stock buying by the Reddit group wallstreetbets.\nAnd while many are cheering that the little retail traders are beating up the big institutional shorts, it is pretty clear that other institutions are also in on this buying. Stories have popped up about Michael Burry's gains on GME stock and Elon Musk was tweeting about it.\nHedge Fund Losses\nThere are some big losses in this squeeze.\nTwo funds in particular have been hard hit. Citron Research and Melvin Capital have reportedly suffered huge losses.\nMelvin is down 30% in 2021 on the back of a GME stock short position. It turned to Steven Cohen of Point72 Capital and Chicago-based Citadel to bail it out.\nThe short squeeze is usually something inflicted by one hedge fund on another.\nThis is really the first time we have seen such trading instigated by a band of retail traders.\nOptions Trading Is Also A Big Factor\nAnother piece of this story's plot is the fact that much of the trading in GME and other names like&nbsp;AMC Entertainment(AMC) and&nbsp;BlackBerry(BB) is actually taking place in the&nbsp;options market.\nBullish call buying instead of buying the stock is attractive here because of the leverage it provides and the fact that the positions are limited risk.\nCalls are contracts that give the right to buy the underlying stock for a given price (strike price) until the expiration date.\nThe most that can be lost is the premium paid for the calls.\nBuying calls requires much less capital, so bigger positions can be taken by small traders.\nThis actually adds to the short squeeze effect.\nWhen retail traders buy calls, it is market makers that sell them.\nThe market makers don't want the risk of being short calls, so they do something called delta hedging.\nWhat Is Delta Hedging, And Why It Matters In A Short Squeeze\nDelta hedging calls requires the market makers to buy stock. And because of the nature of calls, when the price of the underlying stock goes up, the market makers have to buy more stock to stay hedged.\nWe might call this the call option squeeze.\nThe problem is that these moves are not based on any fundamental changes in the stocks.\nNot much has changed for GME stock since it was a $4 stock, and certainly not since it was a $16 stock.\nBrokerage firms are very concerned about the volatility of these moves, as they know they may face losses if customers can't cover positions. They started limiting the positions that can be taken in some of these names.\nThat news came on Jan. 28, which saw GameStop stock price range from over 500 to below 115.\nThis is a trade you wanted to watch out for. While some hedge funds were hurt and some retail traders made fortunes — at least on paper — this still may end badly.\nThe helium holding these stocks up would not last forever.","source":"lsy1610449120050","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>What Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-10-13 09:24 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220>investors</a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\nWhat is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are ...\n\n<a href=\"https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"GME":"游戏驿站","AMC":"AMC院线"},"source_url":"https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1107758297","content_text":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are contributing to these gargantuan moves, but one is surely the classic short squeeze.\nWhile there are some new factors at play in the markets today, the short squeeze has been around as long as shorting stock.\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze\nHere is how the short squeeze works. If traders think a stock's price is going lower, they canshort the stock. They borrow shares and sell them, with the intent of buying them back at lower prices.\nThis is mostly done by institutional investors, like hedge funds, given the risks and the margin required.\nAnd there are big risks. Stocks can theoretically go up infinitely. So a trader who is short can face theoretically infinite losses.\nSome stocks attract very high short interest, which can be viewed as the amount of shares sold short as a percentage of float, or how much stock has been issued that is available for trading.\nThe problem comes if the stock prices starts to rise quickly. Those that are short the stock will likely receive a margin call. They either have to put more money up to secure their position or close their positions.\nIf they choose to — or are forced to — close their position, they are buying the stock to close out their position. This can push the price higher and force other short sellers to do the same. This creates a reinforcing loop of buying and pushing the price higher. This is the short squeeze, as those short the market get \"squeezed\" out.\nShort Squeeze Stocks: GME\nThis is definitely part of what was happening in GameStop(GME) stock. In August of 2020, GME stock was trading for around 4.\nShares steadily climbed higher to close out 2020 just under 20 on the back of some big name investors taking stakes in the company. This attracted the short sellers, notably some big hedge funds. Then, on Jan. 13, the stock jumped to hit a high of almost 40 on huge volume.\nThat was surely the start of the short squeeze. That 40 level held for about a week. On Jan. 22, the stock jumped again, trading above 70 on the biggest volume day up to that point.\nThe next day the stock hit a high of almost 160 with similar action the next day. Then on Jan. 27 the stock doubled again, trading up to 380. The Jan. 28 high was 483.\nWhile short squeezes are nothing new, this action is unprecedented. The action is certainly partly stock buying by the Reddit group wallstreetbets.\nAnd while many are cheering that the little retail traders are beating up the big institutional shorts, it is pretty clear that other institutions are also in on this buying. Stories have popped up about Michael Burry's gains on GME stock and Elon Musk was tweeting about it.\nHedge Fund Losses\nThere are some big losses in this squeeze.\nTwo funds in particular have been hard hit. Citron Research and Melvin Capital have reportedly suffered huge losses.\nMelvin is down 30% in 2021 on the back of a GME stock short position. It turned to Steven Cohen of Point72 Capital and Chicago-based Citadel to bail it out.\nThe short squeeze is usually something inflicted by one hedge fund on another.\nThis is really the first time we have seen such trading instigated by a band of retail traders.\nOptions Trading Is Also A Big Factor\nAnother piece of this story's plot is the fact that much of the trading in GME and other names like AMC Entertainment(AMC) and BlackBerry(BB) is actually taking place in the options market.\nBullish call buying instead of buying the stock is attractive here because of the leverage it provides and the fact that the positions are limited risk.\nCalls are contracts that give the right to buy the underlying stock for a given price (strike price) until the expiration date.\nThe most that can be lost is the premium paid for the calls.\nBuying calls requires much less capital, so bigger positions can be taken by small traders.\nThis actually adds to the short squeeze effect.\nWhen retail traders buy calls, it is market makers that sell them.\nThe market makers don't want the risk of being short calls, so they do something called delta hedging.\nWhat Is Delta Hedging, And Why It Matters In A Short Squeeze\nDelta hedging calls requires the market makers to buy stock. And because of the nature of calls, when the price of the underlying stock goes up, the market makers have to buy more stock to stay hedged.\nWe might call this the call option squeeze.\nThe problem is that these moves are not based on any fundamental changes in the stocks.\nNot much has changed for GME stock since it was a $4 stock, and certainly not since it was a $16 stock.\nBrokerage firms are very concerned about the volatility of these moves, as they know they may face losses if customers can't cover positions. They started limiting the positions that can be taken in some of these names.\nThat news came on Jan. 28, which saw GameStop stock price range from over 500 to below 115.\nThis is a trade you wanted to watch out for. While some hedge funds were hurt and some retail traders made fortunes — at least on paper — this still may end badly.\nThe helium holding these stocks up would not last forever.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"CN"},{"id":822820275,"gmtCreate":1634116130208,"gmtModify":1634116130480,"author":{"id":"3581999478634265","authorId":"3581999478634265","name":"woonws","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f26ed1a10ee84ab97229aad191ef3133","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3581999478634265","authorIdStr":"3581999478634265"},"htmlText":"Useful to know, but isnt this old news?","listText":"Useful to know, but isnt this old news?","text":"Useful to know, but isnt this old news?","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/822820275","repostId":1107758297,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1107758297","pubTimestamp":1634088266,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1107758297?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-10-13 09:24","market":"us","language":"en","title":"What Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1107758297","media":"investors","summary":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make ","content":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are contributing to these gargantuan moves, but one is surely the classic short squeeze.\nWhile there are some new factors at play in the markets today, the short squeeze has been around as long as shorting stock.\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze\nHere is how the short squeeze works. If traders think a stock's price is going lower, they canshort the stock. They borrow shares and sell them, with the intent of buying them back at lower prices.\nThis is mostly done by institutional investors, like hedge funds, given the risks and the margin required.\nAnd there are big risks. Stocks can theoretically go up infinitely. So a&nbsp;trader who is short&nbsp;can face theoretically infinite losses.\nSome stocks attract&nbsp;very high short interest, which can be viewed as the amount of shares sold short as a percentage of float, or how much stock has been issued that is available for trading.\nThe problem comes if the stock prices starts to rise quickly. Those that are short the stock will likely receive a margin call. They either have to put more money up to secure their position or close their positions.\nIf they choose to — or are forced to — close their position, they are buying the stock to close out their position. This can push the price higher and force other short sellers to do the same. This creates a reinforcing loop of buying and pushing the price higher. This is the short squeeze, as those short the market get \"squeezed\" out.\nShort Squeeze Stocks: GME\nThis is definitely part of what was happening in&nbsp;GameStop(GME) stock. In August of 2020, GME stock was trading for around 4.\nShares steadily climbed higher to close out 2020 just under 20 on the back of some big name investors taking stakes in the company. This attracted the short sellers, notably some big hedge funds. Then, on Jan. 13, the stock jumped to hit a high of almost 40 on huge volume.\nThat was surely the start of the short squeeze. That 40 level held for about a week. On Jan. 22, the stock jumped again, trading above 70 on the biggest volume day up to that point.\nThe next day the stock hit a high of almost 160 with similar action the next day. Then on Jan. 27 the stock doubled again, trading up to 380. The Jan. 28 high was 483.\nWhile short squeezes are nothing new, this action is unprecedented. The action is certainly partly stock buying by the Reddit group wallstreetbets.\nAnd while many are cheering that the little retail traders are beating up the big institutional shorts, it is pretty clear that other institutions are also in on this buying. Stories have popped up about Michael Burry's gains on GME stock and Elon Musk was tweeting about it.\nHedge Fund Losses\nThere are some big losses in this squeeze.\nTwo funds in particular have been hard hit. Citron Research and Melvin Capital have reportedly suffered huge losses.\nMelvin is down 30% in 2021 on the back of a GME stock short position. It turned to Steven Cohen of Point72 Capital and Chicago-based Citadel to bail it out.\nThe short squeeze is usually something inflicted by one hedge fund on another.\nThis is really the first time we have seen such trading instigated by a band of retail traders.\nOptions Trading Is Also A Big Factor\nAnother piece of this story's plot is the fact that much of the trading in GME and other names like&nbsp;AMC Entertainment(AMC) and&nbsp;BlackBerry(BB) is actually taking place in the&nbsp;options market.\nBullish call buying instead of buying the stock is attractive here because of the leverage it provides and the fact that the positions are limited risk.\nCalls are contracts that give the right to buy the underlying stock for a given price (strike price) until the expiration date.\nThe most that can be lost is the premium paid for the calls.\nBuying calls requires much less capital, so bigger positions can be taken by small traders.\nThis actually adds to the short squeeze effect.\nWhen retail traders buy calls, it is market makers that sell them.\nThe market makers don't want the risk of being short calls, so they do something called delta hedging.\nWhat Is Delta Hedging, And Why It Matters In A Short Squeeze\nDelta hedging calls requires the market makers to buy stock. And because of the nature of calls, when the price of the underlying stock goes up, the market makers have to buy more stock to stay hedged.\nWe might call this the call option squeeze.\nThe problem is that these moves are not based on any fundamental changes in the stocks.\nNot much has changed for GME stock since it was a $4 stock, and certainly not since it was a $16 stock.\nBrokerage firms are very concerned about the volatility of these moves, as they know they may face losses if customers can't cover positions. They started limiting the positions that can be taken in some of these names.\nThat news came on Jan. 28, which saw GameStop stock price range from over 500 to below 115.\nThis is a trade you wanted to watch out for. While some hedge funds were hurt and some retail traders made fortunes — at least on paper — this still may end badly.\nThe helium holding these stocks up would not last forever.","source":"lsy1610449120050","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>What Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-10-13 09:24 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220>investors</a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\nWhat is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are ...\n\n<a href=\"https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"GME":"游戏驿站","AMC":"AMC院线"},"source_url":"https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1107758297","content_text":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are contributing to these gargantuan moves, but one is surely the classic short squeeze.\nWhile there are some new factors at play in the markets today, the short squeeze has been around as long as shorting stock.\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze\nHere is how the short squeeze works. If traders think a stock's price is going lower, they canshort the stock. They borrow shares and sell them, with the intent of buying them back at lower prices.\nThis is mostly done by institutional investors, like hedge funds, given the risks and the margin required.\nAnd there are big risks. Stocks can theoretically go up infinitely. So a trader who is short can face theoretically infinite losses.\nSome stocks attract very high short interest, which can be viewed as the amount of shares sold short as a percentage of float, or how much stock has been issued that is available for trading.\nThe problem comes if the stock prices starts to rise quickly. Those that are short the stock will likely receive a margin call. They either have to put more money up to secure their position or close their positions.\nIf they choose to — or are forced to — close their position, they are buying the stock to close out their position. This can push the price higher and force other short sellers to do the same. This creates a reinforcing loop of buying and pushing the price higher. This is the short squeeze, as those short the market get \"squeezed\" out.\nShort Squeeze Stocks: GME\nThis is definitely part of what was happening in GameStop(GME) stock. In August of 2020, GME stock was trading for around 4.\nShares steadily climbed higher to close out 2020 just under 20 on the back of some big name investors taking stakes in the company. This attracted the short sellers, notably some big hedge funds. Then, on Jan. 13, the stock jumped to hit a high of almost 40 on huge volume.\nThat was surely the start of the short squeeze. That 40 level held for about a week. On Jan. 22, the stock jumped again, trading above 70 on the biggest volume day up to that point.\nThe next day the stock hit a high of almost 160 with similar action the next day. Then on Jan. 27 the stock doubled again, trading up to 380. The Jan. 28 high was 483.\nWhile short squeezes are nothing new, this action is unprecedented. The action is certainly partly stock buying by the Reddit group wallstreetbets.\nAnd while many are cheering that the little retail traders are beating up the big institutional shorts, it is pretty clear that other institutions are also in on this buying. Stories have popped up about Michael Burry's gains on GME stock and Elon Musk was tweeting about it.\nHedge Fund Losses\nThere are some big losses in this squeeze.\nTwo funds in particular have been hard hit. Citron Research and Melvin Capital have reportedly suffered huge losses.\nMelvin is down 30% in 2021 on the back of a GME stock short position. It turned to Steven Cohen of Point72 Capital and Chicago-based Citadel to bail it out.\nThe short squeeze is usually something inflicted by one hedge fund on another.\nThis is really the first time we have seen such trading instigated by a band of retail traders.\nOptions Trading Is Also A Big Factor\nAnother piece of this story's plot is the fact that much of the trading in GME and other names like AMC Entertainment(AMC) and BlackBerry(BB) is actually taking place in the options market.\nBullish call buying instead of buying the stock is attractive here because of the leverage it provides and the fact that the positions are limited risk.\nCalls are contracts that give the right to buy the underlying stock for a given price (strike price) until the expiration date.\nThe most that can be lost is the premium paid for the calls.\nBuying calls requires much less capital, so bigger positions can be taken by small traders.\nThis actually adds to the short squeeze effect.\nWhen retail traders buy calls, it is market makers that sell them.\nThe market makers don't want the risk of being short calls, so they do something called delta hedging.\nWhat Is Delta Hedging, And Why It Matters In A Short Squeeze\nDelta hedging calls requires the market makers to buy stock. And because of the nature of calls, when the price of the underlying stock goes up, the market makers have to buy more stock to stay hedged.\nWe might call this the call option squeeze.\nThe problem is that these moves are not based on any fundamental changes in the stocks.\nNot much has changed for GME stock since it was a $4 stock, and certainly not since it was a $16 stock.\nBrokerage firms are very concerned about the volatility of these moves, as they know they may face losses if customers can't cover positions. They started limiting the positions that can be taken in some of these names.\nThat news came on Jan. 28, which saw GameStop stock price range from over 500 to below 115.\nThis is a trade you wanted to watch out for. While some hedge funds were hurt and some retail traders made fortunes — at least on paper — this still may end badly.\nThe helium holding these stocks up would not last forever.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"CN"},{"id":822863096,"gmtCreate":1634115178010,"gmtModify":1634115178200,"author":{"id":"4089205014499330","authorId":"4089205014499330","name":"SamYYL","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c38b79dfd54364065e7068bc7e80dc9f","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"4089205014499330","authorIdStr":"4089205014499330"},"htmlText":"Like","listText":"Like","text":"Like","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/822863096","repostId":1107758297,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1107758297","pubTimestamp":1634088266,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1107758297?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-10-13 09:24","market":"us","language":"en","title":"What Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1107758297","media":"investors","summary":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make ","content":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are contributing to these gargantuan moves, but one is surely the classic short squeeze.\nWhile there are some new factors at play in the markets today, the short squeeze has been around as long as shorting stock.\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze\nHere is how the short squeeze works. If traders think a stock's price is going lower, they canshort the stock. They borrow shares and sell them, with the intent of buying them back at lower prices.\nThis is mostly done by institutional investors, like hedge funds, given the risks and the margin required.\nAnd there are big risks. Stocks can theoretically go up infinitely. So a&nbsp;trader who is short&nbsp;can face theoretically infinite losses.\nSome stocks attract&nbsp;very high short interest, which can be viewed as the amount of shares sold short as a percentage of float, or how much stock has been issued that is available for trading.\nThe problem comes if the stock prices starts to rise quickly. Those that are short the stock will likely receive a margin call. They either have to put more money up to secure their position or close their positions.\nIf they choose to — or are forced to — close their position, they are buying the stock to close out their position. This can push the price higher and force other short sellers to do the same. This creates a reinforcing loop of buying and pushing the price higher. This is the short squeeze, as those short the market get \"squeezed\" out.\nShort Squeeze Stocks: GME\nThis is definitely part of what was happening in&nbsp;GameStop(GME) stock. In August of 2020, GME stock was trading for around 4.\nShares steadily climbed higher to close out 2020 just under 20 on the back of some big name investors taking stakes in the company. This attracted the short sellers, notably some big hedge funds. Then, on Jan. 13, the stock jumped to hit a high of almost 40 on huge volume.\nThat was surely the start of the short squeeze. That 40 level held for about a week. On Jan. 22, the stock jumped again, trading above 70 on the biggest volume day up to that point.\nThe next day the stock hit a high of almost 160 with similar action the next day. Then on Jan. 27 the stock doubled again, trading up to 380. The Jan. 28 high was 483.\nWhile short squeezes are nothing new, this action is unprecedented. The action is certainly partly stock buying by the Reddit group wallstreetbets.\nAnd while many are cheering that the little retail traders are beating up the big institutional shorts, it is pretty clear that other institutions are also in on this buying. Stories have popped up about Michael Burry's gains on GME stock and Elon Musk was tweeting about it.\nHedge Fund Losses\nThere are some big losses in this squeeze.\nTwo funds in particular have been hard hit. Citron Research and Melvin Capital have reportedly suffered huge losses.\nMelvin is down 30% in 2021 on the back of a GME stock short position. It turned to Steven Cohen of Point72 Capital and Chicago-based Citadel to bail it out.\nThe short squeeze is usually something inflicted by one hedge fund on another.\nThis is really the first time we have seen such trading instigated by a band of retail traders.\nOptions Trading Is Also A Big Factor\nAnother piece of this story's plot is the fact that much of the trading in GME and other names like&nbsp;AMC Entertainment(AMC) and&nbsp;BlackBerry(BB) is actually taking place in the&nbsp;options market.\nBullish call buying instead of buying the stock is attractive here because of the leverage it provides and the fact that the positions are limited risk.\nCalls are contracts that give the right to buy the underlying stock for a given price (strike price) until the expiration date.\nThe most that can be lost is the premium paid for the calls.\nBuying calls requires much less capital, so bigger positions can be taken by small traders.\nThis actually adds to the short squeeze effect.\nWhen retail traders buy calls, it is market makers that sell them.\nThe market makers don't want the risk of being short calls, so they do something called delta hedging.\nWhat Is Delta Hedging, And Why It Matters In A Short Squeeze\nDelta hedging calls requires the market makers to buy stock. And because of the nature of calls, when the price of the underlying stock goes up, the market makers have to buy more stock to stay hedged.\nWe might call this the call option squeeze.\nThe problem is that these moves are not based on any fundamental changes in the stocks.\nNot much has changed for GME stock since it was a $4 stock, and certainly not since it was a $16 stock.\nBrokerage firms are very concerned about the volatility of these moves, as they know they may face losses if customers can't cover positions. They started limiting the positions that can be taken in some of these names.\nThat news came on Jan. 28, which saw GameStop stock price range from over 500 to below 115.\nThis is a trade you wanted to watch out for. While some hedge funds were hurt and some retail traders made fortunes — at least on paper — this still may end badly.\nThe helium holding these stocks up would not last forever.","source":"lsy1610449120050","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>What Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-10-13 09:24 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220>investors</a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\nWhat is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are ...\n\n<a href=\"https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"GME":"游戏驿站","AMC":"AMC院线"},"source_url":"https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1107758297","content_text":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are contributing to these gargantuan moves, but one is surely the classic short squeeze.\nWhile there are some new factors at play in the markets today, the short squeeze has been around as long as shorting stock.\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze\nHere is how the short squeeze works. If traders think a stock's price is going lower, they canshort the stock. They borrow shares and sell them, with the intent of buying them back at lower prices.\nThis is mostly done by institutional investors, like hedge funds, given the risks and the margin required.\nAnd there are big risks. Stocks can theoretically go up infinitely. So a trader who is short can face theoretically infinite losses.\nSome stocks attract very high short interest, which can be viewed as the amount of shares sold short as a percentage of float, or how much stock has been issued that is available for trading.\nThe problem comes if the stock prices starts to rise quickly. Those that are short the stock will likely receive a margin call. They either have to put more money up to secure their position or close their positions.\nIf they choose to — or are forced to — close their position, they are buying the stock to close out their position. This can push the price higher and force other short sellers to do the same. This creates a reinforcing loop of buying and pushing the price higher. This is the short squeeze, as those short the market get \"squeezed\" out.\nShort Squeeze Stocks: GME\nThis is definitely part of what was happening in GameStop(GME) stock. In August of 2020, GME stock was trading for around 4.\nShares steadily climbed higher to close out 2020 just under 20 on the back of some big name investors taking stakes in the company. This attracted the short sellers, notably some big hedge funds. Then, on Jan. 13, the stock jumped to hit a high of almost 40 on huge volume.\nThat was surely the start of the short squeeze. That 40 level held for about a week. On Jan. 22, the stock jumped again, trading above 70 on the biggest volume day up to that point.\nThe next day the stock hit a high of almost 160 with similar action the next day. Then on Jan. 27 the stock doubled again, trading up to 380. The Jan. 28 high was 483.\nWhile short squeezes are nothing new, this action is unprecedented. The action is certainly partly stock buying by the Reddit group wallstreetbets.\nAnd while many are cheering that the little retail traders are beating up the big institutional shorts, it is pretty clear that other institutions are also in on this buying. Stories have popped up about Michael Burry's gains on GME stock and Elon Musk was tweeting about it.\nHedge Fund Losses\nThere are some big losses in this squeeze.\nTwo funds in particular have been hard hit. Citron Research and Melvin Capital have reportedly suffered huge losses.\nMelvin is down 30% in 2021 on the back of a GME stock short position. It turned to Steven Cohen of Point72 Capital and Chicago-based Citadel to bail it out.\nThe short squeeze is usually something inflicted by one hedge fund on another.\nThis is really the first time we have seen such trading instigated by a band of retail traders.\nOptions Trading Is Also A Big Factor\nAnother piece of this story's plot is the fact that much of the trading in GME and other names like AMC Entertainment(AMC) and BlackBerry(BB) is actually taking place in the options market.\nBullish call buying instead of buying the stock is attractive here because of the leverage it provides and the fact that the positions are limited risk.\nCalls are contracts that give the right to buy the underlying stock for a given price (strike price) until the expiration date.\nThe most that can be lost is the premium paid for the calls.\nBuying calls requires much less capital, so bigger positions can be taken by small traders.\nThis actually adds to the short squeeze effect.\nWhen retail traders buy calls, it is market makers that sell them.\nThe market makers don't want the risk of being short calls, so they do something called delta hedging.\nWhat Is Delta Hedging, And Why It Matters In A Short Squeeze\nDelta hedging calls requires the market makers to buy stock. And because of the nature of calls, when the price of the underlying stock goes up, the market makers have to buy more stock to stay hedged.\nWe might call this the call option squeeze.\nThe problem is that these moves are not based on any fundamental changes in the stocks.\nNot much has changed for GME stock since it was a $4 stock, and certainly not since it was a $16 stock.\nBrokerage firms are very concerned about the volatility of these moves, as they know they may face losses if customers can't cover positions. They started limiting the positions that can be taken in some of these names.\nThat news came on Jan. 28, which saw GameStop stock price range from over 500 to below 115.\nThis is a trade you wanted to watch out for. While some hedge funds were hurt and some retail traders made fortunes — at least on paper — this still may end badly.\nThe helium holding these stocks up would not last forever.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":6184871,"gmtCreate":1634126773195,"gmtModify":1634636858305,"authorId":4091089381144950,"author":{"id":4091089381144950,"idStr":"4091089381144950","authorId":4091089381144950,"name":"滚股怪","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b67621b4133ca0db91bff9766152a448","vip":1,"crmLevel":4,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":822863096,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Like","text":"Like","html":"Like"}],"langContent":"CN"},{"id":822140419,"gmtCreate":1634105603856,"gmtModify":1634105604027,"author":{"id":"3584238171442752","authorId":"3584238171442752","name":"RyanT2021","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c3aa70ae67b23e62ebdede4c992de8f8","vip":1,"crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3584238171442752","authorIdStr":"3584238171442752"},"htmlText":"#hodl to the moon&nbsp;","listText":"#hodl to the moon&nbsp;","text":"#hodl to the moon","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":4,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/822140419","repostId":1107758297,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1107758297","pubTimestamp":1634088266,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1107758297?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-10-13 09:24","market":"us","language":"en","title":"What Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1107758297","media":"investors","summary":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make ","content":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are contributing to these gargantuan moves, but one is surely the classic short squeeze.\nWhile there are some new factors at play in the markets today, the short squeeze has been around as long as shorting stock.\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze\nHere is how the short squeeze works. If traders think a stock's price is going lower, they canshort the stock. They borrow shares and sell them, with the intent of buying them back at lower prices.\nThis is mostly done by institutional investors, like hedge funds, given the risks and the margin required.\nAnd there are big risks. Stocks can theoretically go up infinitely. So a&nbsp;trader who is short&nbsp;can face theoretically infinite losses.\nSome stocks attract&nbsp;very high short interest, which can be viewed as the amount of shares sold short as a percentage of float, or how much stock has been issued that is available for trading.\nThe problem comes if the stock prices starts to rise quickly. Those that are short the stock will likely receive a margin call. They either have to put more money up to secure their position or close their positions.\nIf they choose to — or are forced to — close their position, they are buying the stock to close out their position. This can push the price higher and force other short sellers to do the same. This creates a reinforcing loop of buying and pushing the price higher. This is the short squeeze, as those short the market get \"squeezed\" out.\nShort Squeeze Stocks: GME\nThis is definitely part of what was happening in&nbsp;GameStop(GME) stock. In August of 2020, GME stock was trading for around 4.\nShares steadily climbed higher to close out 2020 just under 20 on the back of some big name investors taking stakes in the company. This attracted the short sellers, notably some big hedge funds. Then, on Jan. 13, the stock jumped to hit a high of almost 40 on huge volume.\nThat was surely the start of the short squeeze. That 40 level held for about a week. On Jan. 22, the stock jumped again, trading above 70 on the biggest volume day up to that point.\nThe next day the stock hit a high of almost 160 with similar action the next day. Then on Jan. 27 the stock doubled again, trading up to 380. The Jan. 28 high was 483.\nWhile short squeezes are nothing new, this action is unprecedented. The action is certainly partly stock buying by the Reddit group wallstreetbets.\nAnd while many are cheering that the little retail traders are beating up the big institutional shorts, it is pretty clear that other institutions are also in on this buying. Stories have popped up about Michael Burry's gains on GME stock and Elon Musk was tweeting about it.\nHedge Fund Losses\nThere are some big losses in this squeeze.\nTwo funds in particular have been hard hit. Citron Research and Melvin Capital have reportedly suffered huge losses.\nMelvin is down 30% in 2021 on the back of a GME stock short position. It turned to Steven Cohen of Point72 Capital and Chicago-based Citadel to bail it out.\nThe short squeeze is usually something inflicted by one hedge fund on another.\nThis is really the first time we have seen such trading instigated by a band of retail traders.\nOptions Trading Is Also A Big Factor\nAnother piece of this story's plot is the fact that much of the trading in GME and other names like&nbsp;AMC Entertainment(AMC) and&nbsp;BlackBerry(BB) is actually taking place in the&nbsp;options market.\nBullish call buying instead of buying the stock is attractive here because of the leverage it provides and the fact that the positions are limited risk.\nCalls are contracts that give the right to buy the underlying stock for a given price (strike price) until the expiration date.\nThe most that can be lost is the premium paid for the calls.\nBuying calls requires much less capital, so bigger positions can be taken by small traders.\nThis actually adds to the short squeeze effect.\nWhen retail traders buy calls, it is market makers that sell them.\nThe market makers don't want the risk of being short calls, so they do something called delta hedging.\nWhat Is Delta Hedging, And Why It Matters In A Short Squeeze\nDelta hedging calls requires the market makers to buy stock. And because of the nature of calls, when the price of the underlying stock goes up, the market makers have to buy more stock to stay hedged.\nWe might call this the call option squeeze.\nThe problem is that these moves are not based on any fundamental changes in the stocks.\nNot much has changed for GME stock since it was a $4 stock, and certainly not since it was a $16 stock.\nBrokerage firms are very concerned about the volatility of these moves, as they know they may face losses if customers can't cover positions. They started limiting the positions that can be taken in some of these names.\nThat news came on Jan. 28, which saw GameStop stock price range from over 500 to below 115.\nThis is a trade you wanted to watch out for. While some hedge funds were hurt and some retail traders made fortunes — at least on paper — this still may end badly.\nThe helium holding these stocks up would not last forever.","source":"lsy1610449120050","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>What Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-10-13 09:24 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220>investors</a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\nWhat is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are ...\n\n<a href=\"https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"GME":"游戏驿站","AMC":"AMC院线"},"source_url":"https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1107758297","content_text":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are contributing to these gargantuan moves, but one is surely the classic short squeeze.\nWhile there are some new factors at play in the markets today, the short squeeze has been around as long as shorting stock.\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze\nHere is how the short squeeze works. If traders think a stock's price is going lower, they canshort the stock. They borrow shares and sell them, with the intent of buying them back at lower prices.\nThis is mostly done by institutional investors, like hedge funds, given the risks and the margin required.\nAnd there are big risks. Stocks can theoretically go up infinitely. So a trader who is short can face theoretically infinite losses.\nSome stocks attract very high short interest, which can be viewed as the amount of shares sold short as a percentage of float, or how much stock has been issued that is available for trading.\nThe problem comes if the stock prices starts to rise quickly. Those that are short the stock will likely receive a margin call. They either have to put more money up to secure their position or close their positions.\nIf they choose to — or are forced to — close their position, they are buying the stock to close out their position. This can push the price higher and force other short sellers to do the same. This creates a reinforcing loop of buying and pushing the price higher. This is the short squeeze, as those short the market get \"squeezed\" out.\nShort Squeeze Stocks: GME\nThis is definitely part of what was happening in GameStop(GME) stock. In August of 2020, GME stock was trading for around 4.\nShares steadily climbed higher to close out 2020 just under 20 on the back of some big name investors taking stakes in the company. This attracted the short sellers, notably some big hedge funds. Then, on Jan. 13, the stock jumped to hit a high of almost 40 on huge volume.\nThat was surely the start of the short squeeze. That 40 level held for about a week. On Jan. 22, the stock jumped again, trading above 70 on the biggest volume day up to that point.\nThe next day the stock hit a high of almost 160 with similar action the next day. Then on Jan. 27 the stock doubled again, trading up to 380. The Jan. 28 high was 483.\nWhile short squeezes are nothing new, this action is unprecedented. The action is certainly partly stock buying by the Reddit group wallstreetbets.\nAnd while many are cheering that the little retail traders are beating up the big institutional shorts, it is pretty clear that other institutions are also in on this buying. Stories have popped up about Michael Burry's gains on GME stock and Elon Musk was tweeting about it.\nHedge Fund Losses\nThere are some big losses in this squeeze.\nTwo funds in particular have been hard hit. Citron Research and Melvin Capital have reportedly suffered huge losses.\nMelvin is down 30% in 2021 on the back of a GME stock short position. It turned to Steven Cohen of Point72 Capital and Chicago-based Citadel to bail it out.\nThe short squeeze is usually something inflicted by one hedge fund on another.\nThis is really the first time we have seen such trading instigated by a band of retail traders.\nOptions Trading Is Also A Big Factor\nAnother piece of this story's plot is the fact that much of the trading in GME and other names like AMC Entertainment(AMC) and BlackBerry(BB) is actually taking place in the options market.\nBullish call buying instead of buying the stock is attractive here because of the leverage it provides and the fact that the positions are limited risk.\nCalls are contracts that give the right to buy the underlying stock for a given price (strike price) until the expiration date.\nThe most that can be lost is the premium paid for the calls.\nBuying calls requires much less capital, so bigger positions can be taken by small traders.\nThis actually adds to the short squeeze effect.\nWhen retail traders buy calls, it is market makers that sell them.\nThe market makers don't want the risk of being short calls, so they do something called delta hedging.\nWhat Is Delta Hedging, And Why It Matters In A Short Squeeze\nDelta hedging calls requires the market makers to buy stock. And because of the nature of calls, when the price of the underlying stock goes up, the market makers have to buy more stock to stay hedged.\nWe might call this the call option squeeze.\nThe problem is that these moves are not based on any fundamental changes in the stocks.\nNot much has changed for GME stock since it was a $4 stock, and certainly not since it was a $16 stock.\nBrokerage firms are very concerned about the volatility of these moves, as they know they may face losses if customers can't cover positions. They started limiting the positions that can be taken in some of these names.\nThat news came on Jan. 28, which saw GameStop stock price range from over 500 to below 115.\nThis is a trade you wanted to watch out for. While some hedge funds were hurt and some retail traders made fortunes — at least on paper — this still may end badly.\nThe helium holding these stocks up would not last forever.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"CN"},{"id":822156104,"gmtCreate":1634104889095,"gmtModify":1634104889749,"author":{"id":"4094698472251250","authorId":"4094698472251250","name":"Residue","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/3007355f2105f2f9a930d32ec14fc091","vip":1,"crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"4094698472251250","authorIdStr":"4094698472251250"},"htmlText":"Tell me more 👍🏻","listText":"Tell me more 👍🏻","text":"Tell me more 👍🏻","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":8,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/822156104","repostId":1107758297,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1107758297","pubTimestamp":1634088266,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1107758297?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-10-13 09:24","market":"us","language":"en","title":"What Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1107758297","media":"investors","summary":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make ","content":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are contributing to these gargantuan moves, but one is surely the classic short squeeze.\nWhile there are some new factors at play in the markets today, the short squeeze has been around as long as shorting stock.\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze\nHere is how the short squeeze works. If traders think a stock's price is going lower, they canshort the stock. They borrow shares and sell them, with the intent of buying them back at lower prices.\nThis is mostly done by institutional investors, like hedge funds, given the risks and the margin required.\nAnd there are big risks. Stocks can theoretically go up infinitely. So a&nbsp;trader who is short&nbsp;can face theoretically infinite losses.\nSome stocks attract&nbsp;very high short interest, which can be viewed as the amount of shares sold short as a percentage of float, or how much stock has been issued that is available for trading.\nThe problem comes if the stock prices starts to rise quickly. Those that are short the stock will likely receive a margin call. They either have to put more money up to secure their position or close their positions.\nIf they choose to — or are forced to — close their position, they are buying the stock to close out their position. This can push the price higher and force other short sellers to do the same. This creates a reinforcing loop of buying and pushing the price higher. This is the short squeeze, as those short the market get \"squeezed\" out.\nShort Squeeze Stocks: GME\nThis is definitely part of what was happening in&nbsp;GameStop(GME) stock. In August of 2020, GME stock was trading for around 4.\nShares steadily climbed higher to close out 2020 just under 20 on the back of some big name investors taking stakes in the company. This attracted the short sellers, notably some big hedge funds. Then, on Jan. 13, the stock jumped to hit a high of almost 40 on huge volume.\nThat was surely the start of the short squeeze. That 40 level held for about a week. On Jan. 22, the stock jumped again, trading above 70 on the biggest volume day up to that point.\nThe next day the stock hit a high of almost 160 with similar action the next day. Then on Jan. 27 the stock doubled again, trading up to 380. The Jan. 28 high was 483.\nWhile short squeezes are nothing new, this action is unprecedented. The action is certainly partly stock buying by the Reddit group wallstreetbets.\nAnd while many are cheering that the little retail traders are beating up the big institutional shorts, it is pretty clear that other institutions are also in on this buying. Stories have popped up about Michael Burry's gains on GME stock and Elon Musk was tweeting about it.\nHedge Fund Losses\nThere are some big losses in this squeeze.\nTwo funds in particular have been hard hit. Citron Research and Melvin Capital have reportedly suffered huge losses.\nMelvin is down 30% in 2021 on the back of a GME stock short position. It turned to Steven Cohen of Point72 Capital and Chicago-based Citadel to bail it out.\nThe short squeeze is usually something inflicted by one hedge fund on another.\nThis is really the first time we have seen such trading instigated by a band of retail traders.\nOptions Trading Is Also A Big Factor\nAnother piece of this story's plot is the fact that much of the trading in GME and other names like&nbsp;AMC Entertainment(AMC) and&nbsp;BlackBerry(BB) is actually taking place in the&nbsp;options market.\nBullish call buying instead of buying the stock is attractive here because of the leverage it provides and the fact that the positions are limited risk.\nCalls are contracts that give the right to buy the underlying stock for a given price (strike price) until the expiration date.\nThe most that can be lost is the premium paid for the calls.\nBuying calls requires much less capital, so bigger positions can be taken by small traders.\nThis actually adds to the short squeeze effect.\nWhen retail traders buy calls, it is market makers that sell them.\nThe market makers don't want the risk of being short calls, so they do something called delta hedging.\nWhat Is Delta Hedging, And Why It Matters In A Short Squeeze\nDelta hedging calls requires the market makers to buy stock. And because of the nature of calls, when the price of the underlying stock goes up, the market makers have to buy more stock to stay hedged.\nWe might call this the call option squeeze.\nThe problem is that these moves are not based on any fundamental changes in the stocks.\nNot much has changed for GME stock since it was a $4 stock, and certainly not since it was a $16 stock.\nBrokerage firms are very concerned about the volatility of these moves, as they know they may face losses if customers can't cover positions. They started limiting the positions that can be taken in some of these names.\nThat news came on Jan. 28, which saw GameStop stock price range from over 500 to below 115.\nThis is a trade you wanted to watch out for. While some hedge funds were hurt and some retail traders made fortunes — at least on paper — this still may end badly.\nThe helium holding these stocks up would not last forever.","source":"lsy1610449120050","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>What Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-10-13 09:24 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220>investors</a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\nWhat is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are ...\n\n<a href=\"https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"GME":"游戏驿站","AMC":"AMC院线"},"source_url":"https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1107758297","content_text":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are contributing to these gargantuan moves, but one is surely the classic short squeeze.\nWhile there are some new factors at play in the markets today, the short squeeze has been around as long as shorting stock.\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze\nHere is how the short squeeze works. If traders think a stock's price is going lower, they canshort the stock. They borrow shares and sell them, with the intent of buying them back at lower prices.\nThis is mostly done by institutional investors, like hedge funds, given the risks and the margin required.\nAnd there are big risks. Stocks can theoretically go up infinitely. So a trader who is short can face theoretically infinite losses.\nSome stocks attract very high short interest, which can be viewed as the amount of shares sold short as a percentage of float, or how much stock has been issued that is available for trading.\nThe problem comes if the stock prices starts to rise quickly. Those that are short the stock will likely receive a margin call. They either have to put more money up to secure their position or close their positions.\nIf they choose to — or are forced to — close their position, they are buying the stock to close out their position. This can push the price higher and force other short sellers to do the same. This creates a reinforcing loop of buying and pushing the price higher. This is the short squeeze, as those short the market get \"squeezed\" out.\nShort Squeeze Stocks: GME\nThis is definitely part of what was happening in GameStop(GME) stock. In August of 2020, GME stock was trading for around 4.\nShares steadily climbed higher to close out 2020 just under 20 on the back of some big name investors taking stakes in the company. This attracted the short sellers, notably some big hedge funds. Then, on Jan. 13, the stock jumped to hit a high of almost 40 on huge volume.\nThat was surely the start of the short squeeze. That 40 level held for about a week. On Jan. 22, the stock jumped again, trading above 70 on the biggest volume day up to that point.\nThe next day the stock hit a high of almost 160 with similar action the next day. Then on Jan. 27 the stock doubled again, trading up to 380. The Jan. 28 high was 483.\nWhile short squeezes are nothing new, this action is unprecedented. The action is certainly partly stock buying by the Reddit group wallstreetbets.\nAnd while many are cheering that the little retail traders are beating up the big institutional shorts, it is pretty clear that other institutions are also in on this buying. Stories have popped up about Michael Burry's gains on GME stock and Elon Musk was tweeting about it.\nHedge Fund Losses\nThere are some big losses in this squeeze.\nTwo funds in particular have been hard hit. Citron Research and Melvin Capital have reportedly suffered huge losses.\nMelvin is down 30% in 2021 on the back of a GME stock short position. It turned to Steven Cohen of Point72 Capital and Chicago-based Citadel to bail it out.\nThe short squeeze is usually something inflicted by one hedge fund on another.\nThis is really the first time we have seen such trading instigated by a band of retail traders.\nOptions Trading Is Also A Big Factor\nAnother piece of this story's plot is the fact that much of the trading in GME and other names like AMC Entertainment(AMC) and BlackBerry(BB) is actually taking place in the options market.\nBullish call buying instead of buying the stock is attractive here because of the leverage it provides and the fact that the positions are limited risk.\nCalls are contracts that give the right to buy the underlying stock for a given price (strike price) until the expiration date.\nThe most that can be lost is the premium paid for the calls.\nBuying calls requires much less capital, so bigger positions can be taken by small traders.\nThis actually adds to the short squeeze effect.\nWhen retail traders buy calls, it is market makers that sell them.\nThe market makers don't want the risk of being short calls, so they do something called delta hedging.\nWhat Is Delta Hedging, And Why It Matters In A Short Squeeze\nDelta hedging calls requires the market makers to buy stock. And because of the nature of calls, when the price of the underlying stock goes up, the market makers have to buy more stock to stay hedged.\nWe might call this the call option squeeze.\nThe problem is that these moves are not based on any fundamental changes in the stocks.\nNot much has changed for GME stock since it was a $4 stock, and certainly not since it was a $16 stock.\nBrokerage firms are very concerned about the volatility of these moves, as they know they may face losses if customers can't cover positions. They started limiting the positions that can be taken in some of these names.\nThat news came on Jan. 28, which saw GameStop stock price range from over 500 to below 115.\nThis is a trade you wanted to watch out for. While some hedge funds were hurt and some retail traders made fortunes — at least on paper — this still may end badly.\nThe helium holding these stocks up would not last forever.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":6184804,"gmtCreate":1634126364577,"gmtModify":1634636864502,"authorId":4091089381144950,"author":{"id":4091089381144950,"idStr":"4091089381144950","authorId":4091089381144950,"name":"滚股怪","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b67621b4133ca0db91bff9766152a448","vip":1,"crmLevel":4,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":822156104,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"More","text":"More","html":"More"}],"langContent":"CN"},{"id":822120759,"gmtCreate":1634103421143,"gmtModify":1634103422829,"author":{"id":"4091758936365950","authorId":"4091758936365950","name":"MHh","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/54b2feced9ef5dcc9e95997d1f4db280","vip":1,"crmLevel":7,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"4091758936365950","authorIdStr":"4091758936365950"},"htmlText":"Oops","listText":"Oops","text":"Oops","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":5,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/822120759","repostId":1107758297,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1107758297","pubTimestamp":1634088266,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1107758297?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-10-13 09:24","market":"us","language":"en","title":"What Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1107758297","media":"investors","summary":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make ","content":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are contributing to these gargantuan moves, but one is surely the classic short squeeze.\nWhile there are some new factors at play in the markets today, the short squeeze has been around as long as shorting stock.\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze\nHere is how the short squeeze works. If traders think a stock's price is going lower, they canshort the stock. They borrow shares and sell them, with the intent of buying them back at lower prices.\nThis is mostly done by institutional investors, like hedge funds, given the risks and the margin required.\nAnd there are big risks. Stocks can theoretically go up infinitely. So a&nbsp;trader who is short&nbsp;can face theoretically infinite losses.\nSome stocks attract&nbsp;very high short interest, which can be viewed as the amount of shares sold short as a percentage of float, or how much stock has been issued that is available for trading.\nThe problem comes if the stock prices starts to rise quickly. Those that are short the stock will likely receive a margin call. They either have to put more money up to secure their position or close their positions.\nIf they choose to — or are forced to — close their position, they are buying the stock to close out their position. This can push the price higher and force other short sellers to do the same. This creates a reinforcing loop of buying and pushing the price higher. This is the short squeeze, as those short the market get \"squeezed\" out.\nShort Squeeze Stocks: GME\nThis is definitely part of what was happening in&nbsp;GameStop(GME) stock. In August of 2020, GME stock was trading for around 4.\nShares steadily climbed higher to close out 2020 just under 20 on the back of some big name investors taking stakes in the company. This attracted the short sellers, notably some big hedge funds. Then, on Jan. 13, the stock jumped to hit a high of almost 40 on huge volume.\nThat was surely the start of the short squeeze. That 40 level held for about a week. On Jan. 22, the stock jumped again, trading above 70 on the biggest volume day up to that point.\nThe next day the stock hit a high of almost 160 with similar action the next day. Then on Jan. 27 the stock doubled again, trading up to 380. The Jan. 28 high was 483.\nWhile short squeezes are nothing new, this action is unprecedented. The action is certainly partly stock buying by the Reddit group wallstreetbets.\nAnd while many are cheering that the little retail traders are beating up the big institutional shorts, it is pretty clear that other institutions are also in on this buying. Stories have popped up about Michael Burry's gains on GME stock and Elon Musk was tweeting about it.\nHedge Fund Losses\nThere are some big losses in this squeeze.\nTwo funds in particular have been hard hit. Citron Research and Melvin Capital have reportedly suffered huge losses.\nMelvin is down 30% in 2021 on the back of a GME stock short position. It turned to Steven Cohen of Point72 Capital and Chicago-based Citadel to bail it out.\nThe short squeeze is usually something inflicted by one hedge fund on another.\nThis is really the first time we have seen such trading instigated by a band of retail traders.\nOptions Trading Is Also A Big Factor\nAnother piece of this story's plot is the fact that much of the trading in GME and other names like&nbsp;AMC Entertainment(AMC) and&nbsp;BlackBerry(BB) is actually taking place in the&nbsp;options market.\nBullish call buying instead of buying the stock is attractive here because of the leverage it provides and the fact that the positions are limited risk.\nCalls are contracts that give the right to buy the underlying stock for a given price (strike price) until the expiration date.\nThe most that can be lost is the premium paid for the calls.\nBuying calls requires much less capital, so bigger positions can be taken by small traders.\nThis actually adds to the short squeeze effect.\nWhen retail traders buy calls, it is market makers that sell them.\nThe market makers don't want the risk of being short calls, so they do something called delta hedging.\nWhat Is Delta Hedging, And Why It Matters In A Short Squeeze\nDelta hedging calls requires the market makers to buy stock. And because of the nature of calls, when the price of the underlying stock goes up, the market makers have to buy more stock to stay hedged.\nWe might call this the call option squeeze.\nThe problem is that these moves are not based on any fundamental changes in the stocks.\nNot much has changed for GME stock since it was a $4 stock, and certainly not since it was a $16 stock.\nBrokerage firms are very concerned about the volatility of these moves, as they know they may face losses if customers can't cover positions. They started limiting the positions that can be taken in some of these names.\nThat news came on Jan. 28, which saw GameStop stock price range from over 500 to below 115.\nThis is a trade you wanted to watch out for. While some hedge funds were hurt and some retail traders made fortunes — at least on paper — this still may end badly.\nThe helium holding these stocks up would not last forever.","source":"lsy1610449120050","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>What Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-10-13 09:24 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220>investors</a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\nWhat is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are ...\n\n<a href=\"https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"GME":"游戏驿站","AMC":"AMC院线"},"source_url":"https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1107758297","content_text":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are contributing to these gargantuan moves, but one is surely the classic short squeeze.\nWhile there are some new factors at play in the markets today, the short squeeze has been around as long as shorting stock.\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze\nHere is how the short squeeze works. If traders think a stock's price is going lower, they canshort the stock. They borrow shares and sell them, with the intent of buying them back at lower prices.\nThis is mostly done by institutional investors, like hedge funds, given the risks and the margin required.\nAnd there are big risks. Stocks can theoretically go up infinitely. So a trader who is short can face theoretically infinite losses.\nSome stocks attract very high short interest, which can be viewed as the amount of shares sold short as a percentage of float, or how much stock has been issued that is available for trading.\nThe problem comes if the stock prices starts to rise quickly. Those that are short the stock will likely receive a margin call. They either have to put more money up to secure their position or close their positions.\nIf they choose to — or are forced to — close their position, they are buying the stock to close out their position. This can push the price higher and force other short sellers to do the same. This creates a reinforcing loop of buying and pushing the price higher. This is the short squeeze, as those short the market get \"squeezed\" out.\nShort Squeeze Stocks: GME\nThis is definitely part of what was happening in GameStop(GME) stock. In August of 2020, GME stock was trading for around 4.\nShares steadily climbed higher to close out 2020 just under 20 on the back of some big name investors taking stakes in the company. This attracted the short sellers, notably some big hedge funds. Then, on Jan. 13, the stock jumped to hit a high of almost 40 on huge volume.\nThat was surely the start of the short squeeze. That 40 level held for about a week. On Jan. 22, the stock jumped again, trading above 70 on the biggest volume day up to that point.\nThe next day the stock hit a high of almost 160 with similar action the next day. Then on Jan. 27 the stock doubled again, trading up to 380. The Jan. 28 high was 483.\nWhile short squeezes are nothing new, this action is unprecedented. The action is certainly partly stock buying by the Reddit group wallstreetbets.\nAnd while many are cheering that the little retail traders are beating up the big institutional shorts, it is pretty clear that other institutions are also in on this buying. Stories have popped up about Michael Burry's gains on GME stock and Elon Musk was tweeting about it.\nHedge Fund Losses\nThere are some big losses in this squeeze.\nTwo funds in particular have been hard hit. Citron Research and Melvin Capital have reportedly suffered huge losses.\nMelvin is down 30% in 2021 on the back of a GME stock short position. It turned to Steven Cohen of Point72 Capital and Chicago-based Citadel to bail it out.\nThe short squeeze is usually something inflicted by one hedge fund on another.\nThis is really the first time we have seen such trading instigated by a band of retail traders.\nOptions Trading Is Also A Big Factor\nAnother piece of this story's plot is the fact that much of the trading in GME and other names like AMC Entertainment(AMC) and BlackBerry(BB) is actually taking place in the options market.\nBullish call buying instead of buying the stock is attractive here because of the leverage it provides and the fact that the positions are limited risk.\nCalls are contracts that give the right to buy the underlying stock for a given price (strike price) until the expiration date.\nThe most that can be lost is the premium paid for the calls.\nBuying calls requires much less capital, so bigger positions can be taken by small traders.\nThis actually adds to the short squeeze effect.\nWhen retail traders buy calls, it is market makers that sell them.\nThe market makers don't want the risk of being short calls, so they do something called delta hedging.\nWhat Is Delta Hedging, And Why It Matters In A Short Squeeze\nDelta hedging calls requires the market makers to buy stock. And because of the nature of calls, when the price of the underlying stock goes up, the market makers have to buy more stock to stay hedged.\nWe might call this the call option squeeze.\nThe problem is that these moves are not based on any fundamental changes in the stocks.\nNot much has changed for GME stock since it was a $4 stock, and certainly not since it was a $16 stock.\nBrokerage firms are very concerned about the volatility of these moves, as they know they may face losses if customers can't cover positions. They started limiting the positions that can be taken in some of these names.\nThat news came on Jan. 28, which saw GameStop stock price range from over 500 to below 115.\nThis is a trade you wanted to watch out for. While some hedge funds were hurt and some retail traders made fortunes — at least on paper — this still may end badly.\nThe helium holding these stocks up would not last forever.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"CN"},{"id":822182084,"gmtCreate":1634101693952,"gmtModify":1634103620602,"author":{"id":"3582056888971510","authorId":"3582056888971510","name":"anthonywhite","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0526b170aa6ae84256c1c1104ce0f4f8","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3582056888971510","authorIdStr":"3582056888971510"},"htmlText":"This article is plain FUD. While it’s true that shortsqueeze underscore some of the basics for&nbsp;GME and AMC. This is not the entire full picture.The ‘GME squeeze’ has occurred on Jan2021, yet why is the stock still trading at the current priceand undergoing constant fluctuation and oscillation?&nbsp;Many people labeled it as meme stocks and that the companies are fundamentally out of touched.But how many of them do dive deeper to the 13f fillings and all? Do you all even knew that GameStop has a new change of board, CEO and chairman just this year? That GameStop went on a hiring blitz attracting and poaching many talents fromFAANG and beyond? That Gamestop have paid off all debt and that they have a coffer of $1b in their warchest to expand into digital fulfilment centres.GameStop is b","listText":"This article is plain FUD. While it’s true that shortsqueeze underscore some of the basics for&nbsp;GME and AMC. This is not the entire full picture.The ‘GME squeeze’ has occurred on Jan2021, yet why is the stock still trading at the current priceand undergoing constant fluctuation and oscillation?&nbsp;Many people labeled it as meme stocks and that the companies are fundamentally out of touched.But how many of them do dive deeper to the 13f fillings and all? Do you all even knew that GameStop has a new change of board, CEO and chairman just this year? That GameStop went on a hiring blitz attracting and poaching many talents fromFAANG and beyond? That Gamestop have paid off all debt and that they have a coffer of $1b in their warchest to expand into digital fulfilment centres.GameStop is b","text":"This article is plain FUD. While it’s true that shortsqueeze underscore some of the basics for GME and AMC. This is not the entire full picture.The ‘GME squeeze’ has occurred on Jan2021, yet why is the stock still trading at the current priceand undergoing constant fluctuation and oscillation? Many people labeled it as meme stocks and that the companies are fundamentally out of touched.But how many of them do dive deeper to the 13f fillings and all? Do you all even knew that GameStop has a new change of board, CEO and chairman just this year? That GameStop went on a hiring blitz attracting and poaching many talents fromFAANG and beyond? That Gamestop have paid off all debt and that they have a coffer of $1b in their warchest to expand into digital fulfilment centres.GameStop is b","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":8,"commentSize":2,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/822182084","repostId":1107758297,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1107758297","pubTimestamp":1634088266,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1107758297?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-10-13 09:24","market":"us","language":"en","title":"What Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1107758297","media":"investors","summary":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make ","content":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are contributing to these gargantuan moves, but one is surely the classic short squeeze.\nWhile there are some new factors at play in the markets today, the short squeeze has been around as long as shorting stock.\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze\nHere is how the short squeeze works. If traders think a stock's price is going lower, they canshort the stock. They borrow shares and sell them, with the intent of buying them back at lower prices.\nThis is mostly done by institutional investors, like hedge funds, given the risks and the margin required.\nAnd there are big risks. Stocks can theoretically go up infinitely. So a&nbsp;trader who is short&nbsp;can face theoretically infinite losses.\nSome stocks attract&nbsp;very high short interest, which can be viewed as the amount of shares sold short as a percentage of float, or how much stock has been issued that is available for trading.\nThe problem comes if the stock prices starts to rise quickly. Those that are short the stock will likely receive a margin call. They either have to put more money up to secure their position or close their positions.\nIf they choose to — or are forced to — close their position, they are buying the stock to close out their position. This can push the price higher and force other short sellers to do the same. This creates a reinforcing loop of buying and pushing the price higher. This is the short squeeze, as those short the market get \"squeezed\" out.\nShort Squeeze Stocks: GME\nThis is definitely part of what was happening in&nbsp;GameStop(GME) stock. In August of 2020, GME stock was trading for around 4.\nShares steadily climbed higher to close out 2020 just under 20 on the back of some big name investors taking stakes in the company. This attracted the short sellers, notably some big hedge funds. Then, on Jan. 13, the stock jumped to hit a high of almost 40 on huge volume.\nThat was surely the start of the short squeeze. That 40 level held for about a week. On Jan. 22, the stock jumped again, trading above 70 on the biggest volume day up to that point.\nThe next day the stock hit a high of almost 160 with similar action the next day. Then on Jan. 27 the stock doubled again, trading up to 380. The Jan. 28 high was 483.\nWhile short squeezes are nothing new, this action is unprecedented. The action is certainly partly stock buying by the Reddit group wallstreetbets.\nAnd while many are cheering that the little retail traders are beating up the big institutional shorts, it is pretty clear that other institutions are also in on this buying. Stories have popped up about Michael Burry's gains on GME stock and Elon Musk was tweeting about it.\nHedge Fund Losses\nThere are some big losses in this squeeze.\nTwo funds in particular have been hard hit. Citron Research and Melvin Capital have reportedly suffered huge losses.\nMelvin is down 30% in 2021 on the back of a GME stock short position. It turned to Steven Cohen of Point72 Capital and Chicago-based Citadel to bail it out.\nThe short squeeze is usually something inflicted by one hedge fund on another.\nThis is really the first time we have seen such trading instigated by a band of retail traders.\nOptions Trading Is Also A Big Factor\nAnother piece of this story's plot is the fact that much of the trading in GME and other names like&nbsp;AMC Entertainment(AMC) and&nbsp;BlackBerry(BB) is actually taking place in the&nbsp;options market.\nBullish call buying instead of buying the stock is attractive here because of the leverage it provides and the fact that the positions are limited risk.\nCalls are contracts that give the right to buy the underlying stock for a given price (strike price) until the expiration date.\nThe most that can be lost is the premium paid for the calls.\nBuying calls requires much less capital, so bigger positions can be taken by small traders.\nThis actually adds to the short squeeze effect.\nWhen retail traders buy calls, it is market makers that sell them.\nThe market makers don't want the risk of being short calls, so they do something called delta hedging.\nWhat Is Delta Hedging, And Why It Matters In A Short Squeeze\nDelta hedging calls requires the market makers to buy stock. And because of the nature of calls, when the price of the underlying stock goes up, the market makers have to buy more stock to stay hedged.\nWe might call this the call option squeeze.\nThe problem is that these moves are not based on any fundamental changes in the stocks.\nNot much has changed for GME stock since it was a $4 stock, and certainly not since it was a $16 stock.\nBrokerage firms are very concerned about the volatility of these moves, as they know they may face losses if customers can't cover positions. They started limiting the positions that can be taken in some of these names.\nThat news came on Jan. 28, which saw GameStop stock price range from over 500 to below 115.\nThis is a trade you wanted to watch out for. While some hedge funds were hurt and some retail traders made fortunes — at least on paper — this still may end badly.\nThe helium holding these stocks up would not last forever.","source":"lsy1610449120050","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>What Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-10-13 09:24 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220>investors</a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\nWhat is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are ...\n\n<a href=\"https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"GME":"游戏驿站","AMC":"AMC院线"},"source_url":"https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1107758297","content_text":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are contributing to these gargantuan moves, but one is surely the classic short squeeze.\nWhile there are some new factors at play in the markets today, the short squeeze has been around as long as shorting stock.\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze\nHere is how the short squeeze works. If traders think a stock's price is going lower, they canshort the stock. They borrow shares and sell them, with the intent of buying them back at lower prices.\nThis is mostly done by institutional investors, like hedge funds, given the risks and the margin required.\nAnd there are big risks. Stocks can theoretically go up infinitely. So a trader who is short can face theoretically infinite losses.\nSome stocks attract very high short interest, which can be viewed as the amount of shares sold short as a percentage of float, or how much stock has been issued that is available for trading.\nThe problem comes if the stock prices starts to rise quickly. Those that are short the stock will likely receive a margin call. They either have to put more money up to secure their position or close their positions.\nIf they choose to — or are forced to — close their position, they are buying the stock to close out their position. This can push the price higher and force other short sellers to do the same. This creates a reinforcing loop of buying and pushing the price higher. This is the short squeeze, as those short the market get \"squeezed\" out.\nShort Squeeze Stocks: GME\nThis is definitely part of what was happening in GameStop(GME) stock. In August of 2020, GME stock was trading for around 4.\nShares steadily climbed higher to close out 2020 just under 20 on the back of some big name investors taking stakes in the company. This attracted the short sellers, notably some big hedge funds. Then, on Jan. 13, the stock jumped to hit a high of almost 40 on huge volume.\nThat was surely the start of the short squeeze. That 40 level held for about a week. On Jan. 22, the stock jumped again, trading above 70 on the biggest volume day up to that point.\nThe next day the stock hit a high of almost 160 with similar action the next day. Then on Jan. 27 the stock doubled again, trading up to 380. The Jan. 28 high was 483.\nWhile short squeezes are nothing new, this action is unprecedented. The action is certainly partly stock buying by the Reddit group wallstreetbets.\nAnd while many are cheering that the little retail traders are beating up the big institutional shorts, it is pretty clear that other institutions are also in on this buying. Stories have popped up about Michael Burry's gains on GME stock and Elon Musk was tweeting about it.\nHedge Fund Losses\nThere are some big losses in this squeeze.\nTwo funds in particular have been hard hit. Citron Research and Melvin Capital have reportedly suffered huge losses.\nMelvin is down 30% in 2021 on the back of a GME stock short position. It turned to Steven Cohen of Point72 Capital and Chicago-based Citadel to bail it out.\nThe short squeeze is usually something inflicted by one hedge fund on another.\nThis is really the first time we have seen such trading instigated by a band of retail traders.\nOptions Trading Is Also A Big Factor\nAnother piece of this story's plot is the fact that much of the trading in GME and other names like AMC Entertainment(AMC) and BlackBerry(BB) is actually taking place in the options market.\nBullish call buying instead of buying the stock is attractive here because of the leverage it provides and the fact that the positions are limited risk.\nCalls are contracts that give the right to buy the underlying stock for a given price (strike price) until the expiration date.\nThe most that can be lost is the premium paid for the calls.\nBuying calls requires much less capital, so bigger positions can be taken by small traders.\nThis actually adds to the short squeeze effect.\nWhen retail traders buy calls, it is market makers that sell them.\nThe market makers don't want the risk of being short calls, so they do something called delta hedging.\nWhat Is Delta Hedging, And Why It Matters In A Short Squeeze\nDelta hedging calls requires the market makers to buy stock. And because of the nature of calls, when the price of the underlying stock goes up, the market makers have to buy more stock to stay hedged.\nWe might call this the call option squeeze.\nThe problem is that these moves are not based on any fundamental changes in the stocks.\nNot much has changed for GME stock since it was a $4 stock, and certainly not since it was a $16 stock.\nBrokerage firms are very concerned about the volatility of these moves, as they know they may face losses if customers can't cover positions. They started limiting the positions that can be taken in some of these names.\nThat news came on Jan. 28, which saw GameStop stock price range from over 500 to below 115.\nThis is a trade you wanted to watch out for. While some hedge funds were hurt and some retail traders made fortunes — at least on paper — this still may end badly.\nThe helium holding these stocks up would not last forever.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":6183761,"gmtCreate":1634115436942,"gmtModify":1634636947202,"authorId":3567852837945728,"author":{"id":3567852837945728,"idStr":"3567852837945728","authorId":3567852837945728,"name":"setia100","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/ab829aea9ea019146d40958fbc54f09b","vip":1,"crmLevel":5,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":822182084,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"👍 TQVM... something&nbsp; men in the mainstreet didn't drill deep into it🤭","text":"👍 TQVM... something&nbsp; men in the mainstreet didn't drill deep into it🤭","html":"👍 TQVM... something&nbsp; men in the mainstreet didn't drill deep into it🤭"},{"id":6186794,"gmtCreate":1634138434882,"gmtModify":1634138434882,"authorId":9000000000000134,"author":{"id":9000000000000134,"idStr":"9000000000000134","authorId":9000000000000134,"name":"AaronJe","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1f82ebb69e3d2120663f3d6bcbf0013a","vip":8,"crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":822182084,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"😄gme allowed retail investors to defeat institutional investors for the first time.","text":"😄gme allowed retail investors to defeat institutional investors for the first time.","html":"😄gme allowed retail investors to defeat institutional investors for the first time."}],"langContent":"CN"},{"id":822188632,"gmtCreate":1634101570636,"gmtModify":1634101571682,"author":{"id":"3583974841960176","authorId":"3583974841960176","name":"CIG","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/6c2077e2370e1ffcaca7e29b875be2be","vip":1,"crmLevel":5,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3583974841960176","authorIdStr":"3583974841960176"},"htmlText":"Besides the Delta, Gamma squeeze should not be ignored.","listText":"Besides the Delta, Gamma squeeze should not be ignored.","text":"Besides the Delta, Gamma squeeze should not be ignored.","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":3,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/822188632","repostId":1107758297,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1107758297","pubTimestamp":1634088266,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1107758297?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-10-13 09:24","market":"us","language":"en","title":"What Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1107758297","media":"investors","summary":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make ","content":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are contributing to these gargantuan moves, but one is surely the classic short squeeze.\nWhile there are some new factors at play in the markets today, the short squeeze has been around as long as shorting stock.\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze\nHere is how the short squeeze works. If traders think a stock's price is going lower, they canshort the stock. They borrow shares and sell them, with the intent of buying them back at lower prices.\nThis is mostly done by institutional investors, like hedge funds, given the risks and the margin required.\nAnd there are big risks. Stocks can theoretically go up infinitely. So a&nbsp;trader who is short&nbsp;can face theoretically infinite losses.\nSome stocks attract&nbsp;very high short interest, which can be viewed as the amount of shares sold short as a percentage of float, or how much stock has been issued that is available for trading.\nThe problem comes if the stock prices starts to rise quickly. Those that are short the stock will likely receive a margin call. They either have to put more money up to secure their position or close their positions.\nIf they choose to — or are forced to — close their position, they are buying the stock to close out their position. This can push the price higher and force other short sellers to do the same. This creates a reinforcing loop of buying and pushing the price higher. This is the short squeeze, as those short the market get \"squeezed\" out.\nShort Squeeze Stocks: GME\nThis is definitely part of what was happening in&nbsp;GameStop(GME) stock. In August of 2020, GME stock was trading for around 4.\nShares steadily climbed higher to close out 2020 just under 20 on the back of some big name investors taking stakes in the company. This attracted the short sellers, notably some big hedge funds. Then, on Jan. 13, the stock jumped to hit a high of almost 40 on huge volume.\nThat was surely the start of the short squeeze. That 40 level held for about a week. On Jan. 22, the stock jumped again, trading above 70 on the biggest volume day up to that point.\nThe next day the stock hit a high of almost 160 with similar action the next day. Then on Jan. 27 the stock doubled again, trading up to 380. The Jan. 28 high was 483.\nWhile short squeezes are nothing new, this action is unprecedented. The action is certainly partly stock buying by the Reddit group wallstreetbets.\nAnd while many are cheering that the little retail traders are beating up the big institutional shorts, it is pretty clear that other institutions are also in on this buying. Stories have popped up about Michael Burry's gains on GME stock and Elon Musk was tweeting about it.\nHedge Fund Losses\nThere are some big losses in this squeeze.\nTwo funds in particular have been hard hit. Citron Research and Melvin Capital have reportedly suffered huge losses.\nMelvin is down 30% in 2021 on the back of a GME stock short position. It turned to Steven Cohen of Point72 Capital and Chicago-based Citadel to bail it out.\nThe short squeeze is usually something inflicted by one hedge fund on another.\nThis is really the first time we have seen such trading instigated by a band of retail traders.\nOptions Trading Is Also A Big Factor\nAnother piece of this story's plot is the fact that much of the trading in GME and other names like&nbsp;AMC Entertainment(AMC) and&nbsp;BlackBerry(BB) is actually taking place in the&nbsp;options market.\nBullish call buying instead of buying the stock is attractive here because of the leverage it provides and the fact that the positions are limited risk.\nCalls are contracts that give the right to buy the underlying stock for a given price (strike price) until the expiration date.\nThe most that can be lost is the premium paid for the calls.\nBuying calls requires much less capital, so bigger positions can be taken by small traders.\nThis actually adds to the short squeeze effect.\nWhen retail traders buy calls, it is market makers that sell them.\nThe market makers don't want the risk of being short calls, so they do something called delta hedging.\nWhat Is Delta Hedging, And Why It Matters In A Short Squeeze\nDelta hedging calls requires the market makers to buy stock. And because of the nature of calls, when the price of the underlying stock goes up, the market makers have to buy more stock to stay hedged.\nWe might call this the call option squeeze.\nThe problem is that these moves are not based on any fundamental changes in the stocks.\nNot much has changed for GME stock since it was a $4 stock, and certainly not since it was a $16 stock.\nBrokerage firms are very concerned about the volatility of these moves, as they know they may face losses if customers can't cover positions. They started limiting the positions that can be taken in some of these names.\nThat news came on Jan. 28, which saw GameStop stock price range from over 500 to below 115.\nThis is a trade you wanted to watch out for. While some hedge funds were hurt and some retail traders made fortunes — at least on paper — this still may end badly.\nThe helium holding these stocks up would not last forever.","source":"lsy1610449120050","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>What Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-10-13 09:24 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220>investors</a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\nWhat is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are ...\n\n<a href=\"https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"GME":"游戏驿站","AMC":"AMC院线"},"source_url":"https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1107758297","content_text":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are contributing to these gargantuan moves, but one is surely the classic short squeeze.\nWhile there are some new factors at play in the markets today, the short squeeze has been around as long as shorting stock.\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze\nHere is how the short squeeze works. If traders think a stock's price is going lower, they canshort the stock. They borrow shares and sell them, with the intent of buying them back at lower prices.\nThis is mostly done by institutional investors, like hedge funds, given the risks and the margin required.\nAnd there are big risks. Stocks can theoretically go up infinitely. So a trader who is short can face theoretically infinite losses.\nSome stocks attract very high short interest, which can be viewed as the amount of shares sold short as a percentage of float, or how much stock has been issued that is available for trading.\nThe problem comes if the stock prices starts to rise quickly. Those that are short the stock will likely receive a margin call. They either have to put more money up to secure their position or close their positions.\nIf they choose to — or are forced to — close their position, they are buying the stock to close out their position. This can push the price higher and force other short sellers to do the same. This creates a reinforcing loop of buying and pushing the price higher. This is the short squeeze, as those short the market get \"squeezed\" out.\nShort Squeeze Stocks: GME\nThis is definitely part of what was happening in GameStop(GME) stock. In August of 2020, GME stock was trading for around 4.\nShares steadily climbed higher to close out 2020 just under 20 on the back of some big name investors taking stakes in the company. This attracted the short sellers, notably some big hedge funds. Then, on Jan. 13, the stock jumped to hit a high of almost 40 on huge volume.\nThat was surely the start of the short squeeze. That 40 level held for about a week. On Jan. 22, the stock jumped again, trading above 70 on the biggest volume day up to that point.\nThe next day the stock hit a high of almost 160 with similar action the next day. Then on Jan. 27 the stock doubled again, trading up to 380. The Jan. 28 high was 483.\nWhile short squeezes are nothing new, this action is unprecedented. The action is certainly partly stock buying by the Reddit group wallstreetbets.\nAnd while many are cheering that the little retail traders are beating up the big institutional shorts, it is pretty clear that other institutions are also in on this buying. Stories have popped up about Michael Burry's gains on GME stock and Elon Musk was tweeting about it.\nHedge Fund Losses\nThere are some big losses in this squeeze.\nTwo funds in particular have been hard hit. Citron Research and Melvin Capital have reportedly suffered huge losses.\nMelvin is down 30% in 2021 on the back of a GME stock short position. It turned to Steven Cohen of Point72 Capital and Chicago-based Citadel to bail it out.\nThe short squeeze is usually something inflicted by one hedge fund on another.\nThis is really the first time we have seen such trading instigated by a band of retail traders.\nOptions Trading Is Also A Big Factor\nAnother piece of this story's plot is the fact that much of the trading in GME and other names like AMC Entertainment(AMC) and BlackBerry(BB) is actually taking place in the options market.\nBullish call buying instead of buying the stock is attractive here because of the leverage it provides and the fact that the positions are limited risk.\nCalls are contracts that give the right to buy the underlying stock for a given price (strike price) until the expiration date.\nThe most that can be lost is the premium paid for the calls.\nBuying calls requires much less capital, so bigger positions can be taken by small traders.\nThis actually adds to the short squeeze effect.\nWhen retail traders buy calls, it is market makers that sell them.\nThe market makers don't want the risk of being short calls, so they do something called delta hedging.\nWhat Is Delta Hedging, And Why It Matters In A Short Squeeze\nDelta hedging calls requires the market makers to buy stock. And because of the nature of calls, when the price of the underlying stock goes up, the market makers have to buy more stock to stay hedged.\nWe might call this the call option squeeze.\nThe problem is that these moves are not based on any fundamental changes in the stocks.\nNot much has changed for GME stock since it was a $4 stock, and certainly not since it was a $16 stock.\nBrokerage firms are very concerned about the volatility of these moves, as they know they may face losses if customers can't cover positions. They started limiting the positions that can be taken in some of these names.\nThat news came on Jan. 28, which saw GameStop stock price range from over 500 to below 115.\nThis is a trade you wanted to watch out for. While some hedge funds were hurt and some retail traders made fortunes — at least on paper — this still may end badly.\nThe helium holding these stocks up would not last forever.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"CN"},{"id":822188829,"gmtCreate":1634101565002,"gmtModify":1634101566288,"author":{"id":"3579992296424941","authorId":"3579992296424941","name":"DMC8","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/65aa8f5f6299558ce2ab36482793f750","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3579992296424941","authorIdStr":"3579992296424941"},"htmlText":"Like pls&nbsp;","listText":"Like pls&nbsp;","text":"Like pls","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/822188829","repostId":1107758297,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1107758297","pubTimestamp":1634088266,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1107758297?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-10-13 09:24","market":"us","language":"en","title":"What Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1107758297","media":"investors","summary":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make ","content":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are contributing to these gargantuan moves, but one is surely the classic short squeeze.\nWhile there are some new factors at play in the markets today, the short squeeze has been around as long as shorting stock.\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze\nHere is how the short squeeze works. If traders think a stock's price is going lower, they canshort the stock. They borrow shares and sell them, with the intent of buying them back at lower prices.\nThis is mostly done by institutional investors, like hedge funds, given the risks and the margin required.\nAnd there are big risks. Stocks can theoretically go up infinitely. So a&nbsp;trader who is short&nbsp;can face theoretically infinite losses.\nSome stocks attract&nbsp;very high short interest, which can be viewed as the amount of shares sold short as a percentage of float, or how much stock has been issued that is available for trading.\nThe problem comes if the stock prices starts to rise quickly. Those that are short the stock will likely receive a margin call. They either have to put more money up to secure their position or close their positions.\nIf they choose to — or are forced to — close their position, they are buying the stock to close out their position. This can push the price higher and force other short sellers to do the same. This creates a reinforcing loop of buying and pushing the price higher. This is the short squeeze, as those short the market get \"squeezed\" out.\nShort Squeeze Stocks: GME\nThis is definitely part of what was happening in&nbsp;GameStop(GME) stock. In August of 2020, GME stock was trading for around 4.\nShares steadily climbed higher to close out 2020 just under 20 on the back of some big name investors taking stakes in the company. This attracted the short sellers, notably some big hedge funds. Then, on Jan. 13, the stock jumped to hit a high of almost 40 on huge volume.\nThat was surely the start of the short squeeze. That 40 level held for about a week. On Jan. 22, the stock jumped again, trading above 70 on the biggest volume day up to that point.\nThe next day the stock hit a high of almost 160 with similar action the next day. Then on Jan. 27 the stock doubled again, trading up to 380. The Jan. 28 high was 483.\nWhile short squeezes are nothing new, this action is unprecedented. The action is certainly partly stock buying by the Reddit group wallstreetbets.\nAnd while many are cheering that the little retail traders are beating up the big institutional shorts, it is pretty clear that other institutions are also in on this buying. Stories have popped up about Michael Burry's gains on GME stock and Elon Musk was tweeting about it.\nHedge Fund Losses\nThere are some big losses in this squeeze.\nTwo funds in particular have been hard hit. Citron Research and Melvin Capital have reportedly suffered huge losses.\nMelvin is down 30% in 2021 on the back of a GME stock short position. It turned to Steven Cohen of Point72 Capital and Chicago-based Citadel to bail it out.\nThe short squeeze is usually something inflicted by one hedge fund on another.\nThis is really the first time we have seen such trading instigated by a band of retail traders.\nOptions Trading Is Also A Big Factor\nAnother piece of this story's plot is the fact that much of the trading in GME and other names like&nbsp;AMC Entertainment(AMC) and&nbsp;BlackBerry(BB) is actually taking place in the&nbsp;options market.\nBullish call buying instead of buying the stock is attractive here because of the leverage it provides and the fact that the positions are limited risk.\nCalls are contracts that give the right to buy the underlying stock for a given price (strike price) until the expiration date.\nThe most that can be lost is the premium paid for the calls.\nBuying calls requires much less capital, so bigger positions can be taken by small traders.\nThis actually adds to the short squeeze effect.\nWhen retail traders buy calls, it is market makers that sell them.\nThe market makers don't want the risk of being short calls, so they do something called delta hedging.\nWhat Is Delta Hedging, And Why It Matters In A Short Squeeze\nDelta hedging calls requires the market makers to buy stock. And because of the nature of calls, when the price of the underlying stock goes up, the market makers have to buy more stock to stay hedged.\nWe might call this the call option squeeze.\nThe problem is that these moves are not based on any fundamental changes in the stocks.\nNot much has changed for GME stock since it was a $4 stock, and certainly not since it was a $16 stock.\nBrokerage firms are very concerned about the volatility of these moves, as they know they may face losses if customers can't cover positions. They started limiting the positions that can be taken in some of these names.\nThat news came on Jan. 28, which saw GameStop stock price range from over 500 to below 115.\nThis is a trade you wanted to watch out for. While some hedge funds were hurt and some retail traders made fortunes — at least on paper — this still may end badly.\nThe helium holding these stocks up would not last forever.","source":"lsy1610449120050","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>What Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-10-13 09:24 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220>investors</a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\nWhat is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are ...\n\n<a href=\"https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"GME":"游戏驿站","AMC":"AMC院线"},"source_url":"https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1107758297","content_text":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are contributing to these gargantuan moves, but one is surely the classic short squeeze.\nWhile there are some new factors at play in the markets today, the short squeeze has been around as long as shorting stock.\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze\nHere is how the short squeeze works. If traders think a stock's price is going lower, they canshort the stock. They borrow shares and sell them, with the intent of buying them back at lower prices.\nThis is mostly done by institutional investors, like hedge funds, given the risks and the margin required.\nAnd there are big risks. Stocks can theoretically go up infinitely. So a trader who is short can face theoretically infinite losses.\nSome stocks attract very high short interest, which can be viewed as the amount of shares sold short as a percentage of float, or how much stock has been issued that is available for trading.\nThe problem comes if the stock prices starts to rise quickly. Those that are short the stock will likely receive a margin call. They either have to put more money up to secure their position or close their positions.\nIf they choose to — or are forced to — close their position, they are buying the stock to close out their position. This can push the price higher and force other short sellers to do the same. This creates a reinforcing loop of buying and pushing the price higher. This is the short squeeze, as those short the market get \"squeezed\" out.\nShort Squeeze Stocks: GME\nThis is definitely part of what was happening in GameStop(GME) stock. In August of 2020, GME stock was trading for around 4.\nShares steadily climbed higher to close out 2020 just under 20 on the back of some big name investors taking stakes in the company. This attracted the short sellers, notably some big hedge funds. Then, on Jan. 13, the stock jumped to hit a high of almost 40 on huge volume.\nThat was surely the start of the short squeeze. That 40 level held for about a week. On Jan. 22, the stock jumped again, trading above 70 on the biggest volume day up to that point.\nThe next day the stock hit a high of almost 160 with similar action the next day. Then on Jan. 27 the stock doubled again, trading up to 380. The Jan. 28 high was 483.\nWhile short squeezes are nothing new, this action is unprecedented. The action is certainly partly stock buying by the Reddit group wallstreetbets.\nAnd while many are cheering that the little retail traders are beating up the big institutional shorts, it is pretty clear that other institutions are also in on this buying. Stories have popped up about Michael Burry's gains on GME stock and Elon Musk was tweeting about it.\nHedge Fund Losses\nThere are some big losses in this squeeze.\nTwo funds in particular have been hard hit. Citron Research and Melvin Capital have reportedly suffered huge losses.\nMelvin is down 30% in 2021 on the back of a GME stock short position. It turned to Steven Cohen of Point72 Capital and Chicago-based Citadel to bail it out.\nThe short squeeze is usually something inflicted by one hedge fund on another.\nThis is really the first time we have seen such trading instigated by a band of retail traders.\nOptions Trading Is Also A Big Factor\nAnother piece of this story's plot is the fact that much of the trading in GME and other names like AMC Entertainment(AMC) and BlackBerry(BB) is actually taking place in the options market.\nBullish call buying instead of buying the stock is attractive here because of the leverage it provides and the fact that the positions are limited risk.\nCalls are contracts that give the right to buy the underlying stock for a given price (strike price) until the expiration date.\nThe most that can be lost is the premium paid for the calls.\nBuying calls requires much less capital, so bigger positions can be taken by small traders.\nThis actually adds to the short squeeze effect.\nWhen retail traders buy calls, it is market makers that sell them.\nThe market makers don't want the risk of being short calls, so they do something called delta hedging.\nWhat Is Delta Hedging, And Why It Matters In A Short Squeeze\nDelta hedging calls requires the market makers to buy stock. And because of the nature of calls, when the price of the underlying stock goes up, the market makers have to buy more stock to stay hedged.\nWe might call this the call option squeeze.\nThe problem is that these moves are not based on any fundamental changes in the stocks.\nNot much has changed for GME stock since it was a $4 stock, and certainly not since it was a $16 stock.\nBrokerage firms are very concerned about the volatility of these moves, as they know they may face losses if customers can't cover positions. They started limiting the positions that can be taken in some of these names.\nThat news came on Jan. 28, which saw GameStop stock price range from over 500 to below 115.\nThis is a trade you wanted to watch out for. While some hedge funds were hurt and some retail traders made fortunes — at least on paper — this still may end badly.\nThe helium holding these stocks up would not last forever.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"CN"},{"id":822119079,"gmtCreate":1634100222998,"gmtModify":1634100223616,"author":{"id":"4088201880010570","authorId":"4088201880010570","name":"財神發","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"crmLevel":6,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"4088201880010570","authorIdStr":"4088201880010570"},"htmlText":"👍","listText":"👍","text":"👍","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/822119079","repostId":1107758297,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1107758297","pubTimestamp":1634088266,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1107758297?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-10-13 09:24","market":"us","language":"en","title":"What Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1107758297","media":"investors","summary":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make ","content":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are contributing to these gargantuan moves, but one is surely the classic short squeeze.\nWhile there are some new factors at play in the markets today, the short squeeze has been around as long as shorting stock.\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze\nHere is how the short squeeze works. If traders think a stock's price is going lower, they canshort the stock. They borrow shares and sell them, with the intent of buying them back at lower prices.\nThis is mostly done by institutional investors, like hedge funds, given the risks and the margin required.\nAnd there are big risks. Stocks can theoretically go up infinitely. So a&nbsp;trader who is short&nbsp;can face theoretically infinite losses.\nSome stocks attract&nbsp;very high short interest, which can be viewed as the amount of shares sold short as a percentage of float, or how much stock has been issued that is available for trading.\nThe problem comes if the stock prices starts to rise quickly. Those that are short the stock will likely receive a margin call. They either have to put more money up to secure their position or close their positions.\nIf they choose to — or are forced to — close their position, they are buying the stock to close out their position. This can push the price higher and force other short sellers to do the same. This creates a reinforcing loop of buying and pushing the price higher. This is the short squeeze, as those short the market get \"squeezed\" out.\nShort Squeeze Stocks: GME\nThis is definitely part of what was happening in&nbsp;GameStop(GME) stock. In August of 2020, GME stock was trading for around 4.\nShares steadily climbed higher to close out 2020 just under 20 on the back of some big name investors taking stakes in the company. This attracted the short sellers, notably some big hedge funds. Then, on Jan. 13, the stock jumped to hit a high of almost 40 on huge volume.\nThat was surely the start of the short squeeze. That 40 level held for about a week. On Jan. 22, the stock jumped again, trading above 70 on the biggest volume day up to that point.\nThe next day the stock hit a high of almost 160 with similar action the next day. Then on Jan. 27 the stock doubled again, trading up to 380. The Jan. 28 high was 483.\nWhile short squeezes are nothing new, this action is unprecedented. The action is certainly partly stock buying by the Reddit group wallstreetbets.\nAnd while many are cheering that the little retail traders are beating up the big institutional shorts, it is pretty clear that other institutions are also in on this buying. Stories have popped up about Michael Burry's gains on GME stock and Elon Musk was tweeting about it.\nHedge Fund Losses\nThere are some big losses in this squeeze.\nTwo funds in particular have been hard hit. Citron Research and Melvin Capital have reportedly suffered huge losses.\nMelvin is down 30% in 2021 on the back of a GME stock short position. It turned to Steven Cohen of Point72 Capital and Chicago-based Citadel to bail it out.\nThe short squeeze is usually something inflicted by one hedge fund on another.\nThis is really the first time we have seen such trading instigated by a band of retail traders.\nOptions Trading Is Also A Big Factor\nAnother piece of this story's plot is the fact that much of the trading in GME and other names like&nbsp;AMC Entertainment(AMC) and&nbsp;BlackBerry(BB) is actually taking place in the&nbsp;options market.\nBullish call buying instead of buying the stock is attractive here because of the leverage it provides and the fact that the positions are limited risk.\nCalls are contracts that give the right to buy the underlying stock for a given price (strike price) until the expiration date.\nThe most that can be lost is the premium paid for the calls.\nBuying calls requires much less capital, so bigger positions can be taken by small traders.\nThis actually adds to the short squeeze effect.\nWhen retail traders buy calls, it is market makers that sell them.\nThe market makers don't want the risk of being short calls, so they do something called delta hedging.\nWhat Is Delta Hedging, And Why It Matters In A Short Squeeze\nDelta hedging calls requires the market makers to buy stock. And because of the nature of calls, when the price of the underlying stock goes up, the market makers have to buy more stock to stay hedged.\nWe might call this the call option squeeze.\nThe problem is that these moves are not based on any fundamental changes in the stocks.\nNot much has changed for GME stock since it was a $4 stock, and certainly not since it was a $16 stock.\nBrokerage firms are very concerned about the volatility of these moves, as they know they may face losses if customers can't cover positions. They started limiting the positions that can be taken in some of these names.\nThat news came on Jan. 28, which saw GameStop stock price range from over 500 to below 115.\nThis is a trade you wanted to watch out for. While some hedge funds were hurt and some retail traders made fortunes — at least on paper — this still may end badly.\nThe helium holding these stocks up would not last forever.","source":"lsy1610449120050","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>What Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-10-13 09:24 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220>investors</a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\nWhat is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are ...\n\n<a href=\"https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"GME":"游戏驿站","AMC":"AMC院线"},"source_url":"https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1107758297","content_text":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are contributing to these gargantuan moves, but one is surely the classic short squeeze.\nWhile there are some new factors at play in the markets today, the short squeeze has been around as long as shorting stock.\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze\nHere is how the short squeeze works. If traders think a stock's price is going lower, they canshort the stock. They borrow shares and sell them, with the intent of buying them back at lower prices.\nThis is mostly done by institutional investors, like hedge funds, given the risks and the margin required.\nAnd there are big risks. Stocks can theoretically go up infinitely. So a trader who is short can face theoretically infinite losses.\nSome stocks attract very high short interest, which can be viewed as the amount of shares sold short as a percentage of float, or how much stock has been issued that is available for trading.\nThe problem comes if the stock prices starts to rise quickly. Those that are short the stock will likely receive a margin call. They either have to put more money up to secure their position or close their positions.\nIf they choose to — or are forced to — close their position, they are buying the stock to close out their position. This can push the price higher and force other short sellers to do the same. This creates a reinforcing loop of buying and pushing the price higher. This is the short squeeze, as those short the market get \"squeezed\" out.\nShort Squeeze Stocks: GME\nThis is definitely part of what was happening in GameStop(GME) stock. In August of 2020, GME stock was trading for around 4.\nShares steadily climbed higher to close out 2020 just under 20 on the back of some big name investors taking stakes in the company. This attracted the short sellers, notably some big hedge funds. Then, on Jan. 13, the stock jumped to hit a high of almost 40 on huge volume.\nThat was surely the start of the short squeeze. That 40 level held for about a week. On Jan. 22, the stock jumped again, trading above 70 on the biggest volume day up to that point.\nThe next day the stock hit a high of almost 160 with similar action the next day. Then on Jan. 27 the stock doubled again, trading up to 380. The Jan. 28 high was 483.\nWhile short squeezes are nothing new, this action is unprecedented. The action is certainly partly stock buying by the Reddit group wallstreetbets.\nAnd while many are cheering that the little retail traders are beating up the big institutional shorts, it is pretty clear that other institutions are also in on this buying. Stories have popped up about Michael Burry's gains on GME stock and Elon Musk was tweeting about it.\nHedge Fund Losses\nThere are some big losses in this squeeze.\nTwo funds in particular have been hard hit. Citron Research and Melvin Capital have reportedly suffered huge losses.\nMelvin is down 30% in 2021 on the back of a GME stock short position. It turned to Steven Cohen of Point72 Capital and Chicago-based Citadel to bail it out.\nThe short squeeze is usually something inflicted by one hedge fund on another.\nThis is really the first time we have seen such trading instigated by a band of retail traders.\nOptions Trading Is Also A Big Factor\nAnother piece of this story's plot is the fact that much of the trading in GME and other names like AMC Entertainment(AMC) and BlackBerry(BB) is actually taking place in the options market.\nBullish call buying instead of buying the stock is attractive here because of the leverage it provides and the fact that the positions are limited risk.\nCalls are contracts that give the right to buy the underlying stock for a given price (strike price) until the expiration date.\nThe most that can be lost is the premium paid for the calls.\nBuying calls requires much less capital, so bigger positions can be taken by small traders.\nThis actually adds to the short squeeze effect.\nWhen retail traders buy calls, it is market makers that sell them.\nThe market makers don't want the risk of being short calls, so they do something called delta hedging.\nWhat Is Delta Hedging, And Why It Matters In A Short Squeeze\nDelta hedging calls requires the market makers to buy stock. And because of the nature of calls, when the price of the underlying stock goes up, the market makers have to buy more stock to stay hedged.\nWe might call this the call option squeeze.\nThe problem is that these moves are not based on any fundamental changes in the stocks.\nNot much has changed for GME stock since it was a $4 stock, and certainly not since it was a $16 stock.\nBrokerage firms are very concerned about the volatility of these moves, as they know they may face losses if customers can't cover positions. They started limiting the positions that can be taken in some of these names.\nThat news came on Jan. 28, which saw GameStop stock price range from over 500 to below 115.\nThis is a trade you wanted to watch out for. While some hedge funds were hurt and some retail traders made fortunes — at least on paper — this still may end badly.\nThe helium holding these stocks up would not last forever.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"CN"},{"id":822132494,"gmtCreate":1634099666355,"gmtModify":1634099666561,"author":{"id":"4090062734790350","authorId":"4090062734790350","name":"nanehz07","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"crmLevel":5,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"4090062734790350","authorIdStr":"4090062734790350"},"htmlText":"Like","listText":"Like","text":"Like","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/822132494","repostId":1107758297,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1107758297","pubTimestamp":1634088266,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1107758297?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-10-13 09:24","market":"us","language":"en","title":"What Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1107758297","media":"investors","summary":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make ","content":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are contributing to these gargantuan moves, but one is surely the classic short squeeze.\nWhile there are some new factors at play in the markets today, the short squeeze has been around as long as shorting stock.\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze\nHere is how the short squeeze works. If traders think a stock's price is going lower, they canshort the stock. They borrow shares and sell them, with the intent of buying them back at lower prices.\nThis is mostly done by institutional investors, like hedge funds, given the risks and the margin required.\nAnd there are big risks. Stocks can theoretically go up infinitely. So a&nbsp;trader who is short&nbsp;can face theoretically infinite losses.\nSome stocks attract&nbsp;very high short interest, which can be viewed as the amount of shares sold short as a percentage of float, or how much stock has been issued that is available for trading.\nThe problem comes if the stock prices starts to rise quickly. Those that are short the stock will likely receive a margin call. They either have to put more money up to secure their position or close their positions.\nIf they choose to — or are forced to — close their position, they are buying the stock to close out their position. This can push the price higher and force other short sellers to do the same. This creates a reinforcing loop of buying and pushing the price higher. This is the short squeeze, as those short the market get \"squeezed\" out.\nShort Squeeze Stocks: GME\nThis is definitely part of what was happening in&nbsp;GameStop(GME) stock. In August of 2020, GME stock was trading for around 4.\nShares steadily climbed higher to close out 2020 just under 20 on the back of some big name investors taking stakes in the company. This attracted the short sellers, notably some big hedge funds. Then, on Jan. 13, the stock jumped to hit a high of almost 40 on huge volume.\nThat was surely the start of the short squeeze. That 40 level held for about a week. On Jan. 22, the stock jumped again, trading above 70 on the biggest volume day up to that point.\nThe next day the stock hit a high of almost 160 with similar action the next day. Then on Jan. 27 the stock doubled again, trading up to 380. The Jan. 28 high was 483.\nWhile short squeezes are nothing new, this action is unprecedented. The action is certainly partly stock buying by the Reddit group wallstreetbets.\nAnd while many are cheering that the little retail traders are beating up the big institutional shorts, it is pretty clear that other institutions are also in on this buying. Stories have popped up about Michael Burry's gains on GME stock and Elon Musk was tweeting about it.\nHedge Fund Losses\nThere are some big losses in this squeeze.\nTwo funds in particular have been hard hit. Citron Research and Melvin Capital have reportedly suffered huge losses.\nMelvin is down 30% in 2021 on the back of a GME stock short position. It turned to Steven Cohen of Point72 Capital and Chicago-based Citadel to bail it out.\nThe short squeeze is usually something inflicted by one hedge fund on another.\nThis is really the first time we have seen such trading instigated by a band of retail traders.\nOptions Trading Is Also A Big Factor\nAnother piece of this story's plot is the fact that much of the trading in GME and other names like&nbsp;AMC Entertainment(AMC) and&nbsp;BlackBerry(BB) is actually taking place in the&nbsp;options market.\nBullish call buying instead of buying the stock is attractive here because of the leverage it provides and the fact that the positions are limited risk.\nCalls are contracts that give the right to buy the underlying stock for a given price (strike price) until the expiration date.\nThe most that can be lost is the premium paid for the calls.\nBuying calls requires much less capital, so bigger positions can be taken by small traders.\nThis actually adds to the short squeeze effect.\nWhen retail traders buy calls, it is market makers that sell them.\nThe market makers don't want the risk of being short calls, so they do something called delta hedging.\nWhat Is Delta Hedging, And Why It Matters In A Short Squeeze\nDelta hedging calls requires the market makers to buy stock. And because of the nature of calls, when the price of the underlying stock goes up, the market makers have to buy more stock to stay hedged.\nWe might call this the call option squeeze.\nThe problem is that these moves are not based on any fundamental changes in the stocks.\nNot much has changed for GME stock since it was a $4 stock, and certainly not since it was a $16 stock.\nBrokerage firms are very concerned about the volatility of these moves, as they know they may face losses if customers can't cover positions. They started limiting the positions that can be taken in some of these names.\nThat news came on Jan. 28, which saw GameStop stock price range from over 500 to below 115.\nThis is a trade you wanted to watch out for. While some hedge funds were hurt and some retail traders made fortunes — at least on paper — this still may end badly.\nThe helium holding these stocks up would not last forever.","source":"lsy1610449120050","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>What Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-10-13 09:24 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220>investors</a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\nWhat is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are ...\n\n<a href=\"https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"GME":"游戏驿站","AMC":"AMC院线"},"source_url":"https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1107758297","content_text":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are contributing to these gargantuan moves, but one is surely the classic short squeeze.\nWhile there are some new factors at play in the markets today, the short squeeze has been around as long as shorting stock.\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze\nHere is how the short squeeze works. If traders think a stock's price is going lower, they canshort the stock. They borrow shares and sell them, with the intent of buying them back at lower prices.\nThis is mostly done by institutional investors, like hedge funds, given the risks and the margin required.\nAnd there are big risks. Stocks can theoretically go up infinitely. So a trader who is short can face theoretically infinite losses.\nSome stocks attract very high short interest, which can be viewed as the amount of shares sold short as a percentage of float, or how much stock has been issued that is available for trading.\nThe problem comes if the stock prices starts to rise quickly. Those that are short the stock will likely receive a margin call. They either have to put more money up to secure their position or close their positions.\nIf they choose to — or are forced to — close their position, they are buying the stock to close out their position. This can push the price higher and force other short sellers to do the same. This creates a reinforcing loop of buying and pushing the price higher. This is the short squeeze, as those short the market get \"squeezed\" out.\nShort Squeeze Stocks: GME\nThis is definitely part of what was happening in GameStop(GME) stock. In August of 2020, GME stock was trading for around 4.\nShares steadily climbed higher to close out 2020 just under 20 on the back of some big name investors taking stakes in the company. This attracted the short sellers, notably some big hedge funds. Then, on Jan. 13, the stock jumped to hit a high of almost 40 on huge volume.\nThat was surely the start of the short squeeze. That 40 level held for about a week. On Jan. 22, the stock jumped again, trading above 70 on the biggest volume day up to that point.\nThe next day the stock hit a high of almost 160 with similar action the next day. Then on Jan. 27 the stock doubled again, trading up to 380. The Jan. 28 high was 483.\nWhile short squeezes are nothing new, this action is unprecedented. The action is certainly partly stock buying by the Reddit group wallstreetbets.\nAnd while many are cheering that the little retail traders are beating up the big institutional shorts, it is pretty clear that other institutions are also in on this buying. Stories have popped up about Michael Burry's gains on GME stock and Elon Musk was tweeting about it.\nHedge Fund Losses\nThere are some big losses in this squeeze.\nTwo funds in particular have been hard hit. Citron Research and Melvin Capital have reportedly suffered huge losses.\nMelvin is down 30% in 2021 on the back of a GME stock short position. It turned to Steven Cohen of Point72 Capital and Chicago-based Citadel to bail it out.\nThe short squeeze is usually something inflicted by one hedge fund on another.\nThis is really the first time we have seen such trading instigated by a band of retail traders.\nOptions Trading Is Also A Big Factor\nAnother piece of this story's plot is the fact that much of the trading in GME and other names like AMC Entertainment(AMC) and BlackBerry(BB) is actually taking place in the options market.\nBullish call buying instead of buying the stock is attractive here because of the leverage it provides and the fact that the positions are limited risk.\nCalls are contracts that give the right to buy the underlying stock for a given price (strike price) until the expiration date.\nThe most that can be lost is the premium paid for the calls.\nBuying calls requires much less capital, so bigger positions can be taken by small traders.\nThis actually adds to the short squeeze effect.\nWhen retail traders buy calls, it is market makers that sell them.\nThe market makers don't want the risk of being short calls, so they do something called delta hedging.\nWhat Is Delta Hedging, And Why It Matters In A Short Squeeze\nDelta hedging calls requires the market makers to buy stock. And because of the nature of calls, when the price of the underlying stock goes up, the market makers have to buy more stock to stay hedged.\nWe might call this the call option squeeze.\nThe problem is that these moves are not based on any fundamental changes in the stocks.\nNot much has changed for GME stock since it was a $4 stock, and certainly not since it was a $16 stock.\nBrokerage firms are very concerned about the volatility of these moves, as they know they may face losses if customers can't cover positions. They started limiting the positions that can be taken in some of these names.\nThat news came on Jan. 28, which saw GameStop stock price range from over 500 to below 115.\nThis is a trade you wanted to watch out for. While some hedge funds were hurt and some retail traders made fortunes — at least on paper — this still may end badly.\nThe helium holding these stocks up would not last forever.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"CN"},{"id":822132923,"gmtCreate":1634099566998,"gmtModify":1634099649352,"author":{"id":"3572988793196593","authorId":"3572988793196593","name":"Foxie","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3572988793196593","authorIdStr":"3572988793196593"},"htmlText":"Isit squeezing again?&nbsp;","listText":"Isit squeezing again?&nbsp;","text":"Isit squeezing again?","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":4,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/822132923","repostId":1107758297,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1107758297","pubTimestamp":1634088266,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1107758297?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-10-13 09:24","market":"us","language":"en","title":"What Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1107758297","media":"investors","summary":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make ","content":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are contributing to these gargantuan moves, but one is surely the classic short squeeze.\nWhile there are some new factors at play in the markets today, the short squeeze has been around as long as shorting stock.\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze\nHere is how the short squeeze works. If traders think a stock's price is going lower, they canshort the stock. They borrow shares and sell them, with the intent of buying them back at lower prices.\nThis is mostly done by institutional investors, like hedge funds, given the risks and the margin required.\nAnd there are big risks. Stocks can theoretically go up infinitely. So a&nbsp;trader who is short&nbsp;can face theoretically infinite losses.\nSome stocks attract&nbsp;very high short interest, which can be viewed as the amount of shares sold short as a percentage of float, or how much stock has been issued that is available for trading.\nThe problem comes if the stock prices starts to rise quickly. Those that are short the stock will likely receive a margin call. They either have to put more money up to secure their position or close their positions.\nIf they choose to — or are forced to — close their position, they are buying the stock to close out their position. This can push the price higher and force other short sellers to do the same. This creates a reinforcing loop of buying and pushing the price higher. This is the short squeeze, as those short the market get \"squeezed\" out.\nShort Squeeze Stocks: GME\nThis is definitely part of what was happening in&nbsp;GameStop(GME) stock. In August of 2020, GME stock was trading for around 4.\nShares steadily climbed higher to close out 2020 just under 20 on the back of some big name investors taking stakes in the company. This attracted the short sellers, notably some big hedge funds. Then, on Jan. 13, the stock jumped to hit a high of almost 40 on huge volume.\nThat was surely the start of the short squeeze. That 40 level held for about a week. On Jan. 22, the stock jumped again, trading above 70 on the biggest volume day up to that point.\nThe next day the stock hit a high of almost 160 with similar action the next day. Then on Jan. 27 the stock doubled again, trading up to 380. The Jan. 28 high was 483.\nWhile short squeezes are nothing new, this action is unprecedented. The action is certainly partly stock buying by the Reddit group wallstreetbets.\nAnd while many are cheering that the little retail traders are beating up the big institutional shorts, it is pretty clear that other institutions are also in on this buying. Stories have popped up about Michael Burry's gains on GME stock and Elon Musk was tweeting about it.\nHedge Fund Losses\nThere are some big losses in this squeeze.\nTwo funds in particular have been hard hit. Citron Research and Melvin Capital have reportedly suffered huge losses.\nMelvin is down 30% in 2021 on the back of a GME stock short position. It turned to Steven Cohen of Point72 Capital and Chicago-based Citadel to bail it out.\nThe short squeeze is usually something inflicted by one hedge fund on another.\nThis is really the first time we have seen such trading instigated by a band of retail traders.\nOptions Trading Is Also A Big Factor\nAnother piece of this story's plot is the fact that much of the trading in GME and other names like&nbsp;AMC Entertainment(AMC) and&nbsp;BlackBerry(BB) is actually taking place in the&nbsp;options market.\nBullish call buying instead of buying the stock is attractive here because of the leverage it provides and the fact that the positions are limited risk.\nCalls are contracts that give the right to buy the underlying stock for a given price (strike price) until the expiration date.\nThe most that can be lost is the premium paid for the calls.\nBuying calls requires much less capital, so bigger positions can be taken by small traders.\nThis actually adds to the short squeeze effect.\nWhen retail traders buy calls, it is market makers that sell them.\nThe market makers don't want the risk of being short calls, so they do something called delta hedging.\nWhat Is Delta Hedging, And Why It Matters In A Short Squeeze\nDelta hedging calls requires the market makers to buy stock. And because of the nature of calls, when the price of the underlying stock goes up, the market makers have to buy more stock to stay hedged.\nWe might call this the call option squeeze.\nThe problem is that these moves are not based on any fundamental changes in the stocks.\nNot much has changed for GME stock since it was a $4 stock, and certainly not since it was a $16 stock.\nBrokerage firms are very concerned about the volatility of these moves, as they know they may face losses if customers can't cover positions. They started limiting the positions that can be taken in some of these names.\nThat news came on Jan. 28, which saw GameStop stock price range from over 500 to below 115.\nThis is a trade you wanted to watch out for. While some hedge funds were hurt and some retail traders made fortunes — at least on paper — this still may end badly.\nThe helium holding these stocks up would not last forever.","source":"lsy1610449120050","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>What Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-10-13 09:24 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220>investors</a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\nWhat is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are ...\n\n<a href=\"https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"GME":"游戏驿站","AMC":"AMC院线"},"source_url":"https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1107758297","content_text":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are contributing to these gargantuan moves, but one is surely the classic short squeeze.\nWhile there are some new factors at play in the markets today, the short squeeze has been around as long as shorting stock.\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze\nHere is how the short squeeze works. If traders think a stock's price is going lower, they canshort the stock. They borrow shares and sell them, with the intent of buying them back at lower prices.\nThis is mostly done by institutional investors, like hedge funds, given the risks and the margin required.\nAnd there are big risks. Stocks can theoretically go up infinitely. So a trader who is short can face theoretically infinite losses.\nSome stocks attract very high short interest, which can be viewed as the amount of shares sold short as a percentage of float, or how much stock has been issued that is available for trading.\nThe problem comes if the stock prices starts to rise quickly. Those that are short the stock will likely receive a margin call. They either have to put more money up to secure their position or close their positions.\nIf they choose to — or are forced to — close their position, they are buying the stock to close out their position. This can push the price higher and force other short sellers to do the same. This creates a reinforcing loop of buying and pushing the price higher. This is the short squeeze, as those short the market get \"squeezed\" out.\nShort Squeeze Stocks: GME\nThis is definitely part of what was happening in GameStop(GME) stock. In August of 2020, GME stock was trading for around 4.\nShares steadily climbed higher to close out 2020 just under 20 on the back of some big name investors taking stakes in the company. This attracted the short sellers, notably some big hedge funds. Then, on Jan. 13, the stock jumped to hit a high of almost 40 on huge volume.\nThat was surely the start of the short squeeze. That 40 level held for about a week. On Jan. 22, the stock jumped again, trading above 70 on the biggest volume day up to that point.\nThe next day the stock hit a high of almost 160 with similar action the next day. Then on Jan. 27 the stock doubled again, trading up to 380. The Jan. 28 high was 483.\nWhile short squeezes are nothing new, this action is unprecedented. The action is certainly partly stock buying by the Reddit group wallstreetbets.\nAnd while many are cheering that the little retail traders are beating up the big institutional shorts, it is pretty clear that other institutions are also in on this buying. Stories have popped up about Michael Burry's gains on GME stock and Elon Musk was tweeting about it.\nHedge Fund Losses\nThere are some big losses in this squeeze.\nTwo funds in particular have been hard hit. Citron Research and Melvin Capital have reportedly suffered huge losses.\nMelvin is down 30% in 2021 on the back of a GME stock short position. It turned to Steven Cohen of Point72 Capital and Chicago-based Citadel to bail it out.\nThe short squeeze is usually something inflicted by one hedge fund on another.\nThis is really the first time we have seen such trading instigated by a band of retail traders.\nOptions Trading Is Also A Big Factor\nAnother piece of this story's plot is the fact that much of the trading in GME and other names like AMC Entertainment(AMC) and BlackBerry(BB) is actually taking place in the options market.\nBullish call buying instead of buying the stock is attractive here because of the leverage it provides and the fact that the positions are limited risk.\nCalls are contracts that give the right to buy the underlying stock for a given price (strike price) until the expiration date.\nThe most that can be lost is the premium paid for the calls.\nBuying calls requires much less capital, so bigger positions can be taken by small traders.\nThis actually adds to the short squeeze effect.\nWhen retail traders buy calls, it is market makers that sell them.\nThe market makers don't want the risk of being short calls, so they do something called delta hedging.\nWhat Is Delta Hedging, And Why It Matters In A Short Squeeze\nDelta hedging calls requires the market makers to buy stock. And because of the nature of calls, when the price of the underlying stock goes up, the market makers have to buy more stock to stay hedged.\nWe might call this the call option squeeze.\nThe problem is that these moves are not based on any fundamental changes in the stocks.\nNot much has changed for GME stock since it was a $4 stock, and certainly not since it was a $16 stock.\nBrokerage firms are very concerned about the volatility of these moves, as they know they may face losses if customers can't cover positions. They started limiting the positions that can be taken in some of these names.\nThat news came on Jan. 28, which saw GameStop stock price range from over 500 to below 115.\nThis is a trade you wanted to watch out for. While some hedge funds were hurt and some retail traders made fortunes — at least on paper — this still may end badly.\nThe helium holding these stocks up would not last forever.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":6183622,"gmtCreate":1634114216086,"gmtModify":1634636957965,"authorId":3574228744527117,"author":{"id":3574228744527117,"idStr":"3574228744527117","authorId":3574228744527117,"name":"JarenSin","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/34e62412266232d31a80955037ebc419","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":822132923,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"yes of course","text":"yes of course","html":"yes of course"}],"langContent":"CN"},{"id":822133105,"gmtCreate":1634099259623,"gmtModify":1634099321670,"author":{"id":"3574898254285562","authorId":"3574898254285562","name":"TendousTendy","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/925947ffc7566aad9cffa7ce79ddf982","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3574898254285562","authorIdStr":"3574898254285562"},"htmlText":"is happening* short squeeze is still on.Unless you have a reason why the stock is still not back to $5?&nbsp;[捂嘴]&nbsp;","listText":"is happening* short squeeze is still on.Unless you have a reason why the stock is still not back to $5?&nbsp;[捂嘴]&nbsp;","text":"is happening* short squeeze is still on.Unless you have a reason why the stock is still not back to $5? [捂嘴]","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":3,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/822133105","repostId":1107758297,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1107758297","pubTimestamp":1634088266,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1107758297?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-10-13 09:24","market":"us","language":"en","title":"What Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1107758297","media":"investors","summary":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make ","content":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are contributing to these gargantuan moves, but one is surely the classic short squeeze.\nWhile there are some new factors at play in the markets today, the short squeeze has been around as long as shorting stock.\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze\nHere is how the short squeeze works. If traders think a stock's price is going lower, they canshort the stock. They borrow shares and sell them, with the intent of buying them back at lower prices.\nThis is mostly done by institutional investors, like hedge funds, given the risks and the margin required.\nAnd there are big risks. Stocks can theoretically go up infinitely. So a&nbsp;trader who is short&nbsp;can face theoretically infinite losses.\nSome stocks attract&nbsp;very high short interest, which can be viewed as the amount of shares sold short as a percentage of float, or how much stock has been issued that is available for trading.\nThe problem comes if the stock prices starts to rise quickly. Those that are short the stock will likely receive a margin call. They either have to put more money up to secure their position or close their positions.\nIf they choose to — or are forced to — close their position, they are buying the stock to close out their position. This can push the price higher and force other short sellers to do the same. This creates a reinforcing loop of buying and pushing the price higher. This is the short squeeze, as those short the market get \"squeezed\" out.\nShort Squeeze Stocks: GME\nThis is definitely part of what was happening in&nbsp;GameStop(GME) stock. In August of 2020, GME stock was trading for around 4.\nShares steadily climbed higher to close out 2020 just under 20 on the back of some big name investors taking stakes in the company. This attracted the short sellers, notably some big hedge funds. Then, on Jan. 13, the stock jumped to hit a high of almost 40 on huge volume.\nThat was surely the start of the short squeeze. That 40 level held for about a week. On Jan. 22, the stock jumped again, trading above 70 on the biggest volume day up to that point.\nThe next day the stock hit a high of almost 160 with similar action the next day. Then on Jan. 27 the stock doubled again, trading up to 380. The Jan. 28 high was 483.\nWhile short squeezes are nothing new, this action is unprecedented. The action is certainly partly stock buying by the Reddit group wallstreetbets.\nAnd while many are cheering that the little retail traders are beating up the big institutional shorts, it is pretty clear that other institutions are also in on this buying. Stories have popped up about Michael Burry's gains on GME stock and Elon Musk was tweeting about it.\nHedge Fund Losses\nThere are some big losses in this squeeze.\nTwo funds in particular have been hard hit. Citron Research and Melvin Capital have reportedly suffered huge losses.\nMelvin is down 30% in 2021 on the back of a GME stock short position. It turned to Steven Cohen of Point72 Capital and Chicago-based Citadel to bail it out.\nThe short squeeze is usually something inflicted by one hedge fund on another.\nThis is really the first time we have seen such trading instigated by a band of retail traders.\nOptions Trading Is Also A Big Factor\nAnother piece of this story's plot is the fact that much of the trading in GME and other names like&nbsp;AMC Entertainment(AMC) and&nbsp;BlackBerry(BB) is actually taking place in the&nbsp;options market.\nBullish call buying instead of buying the stock is attractive here because of the leverage it provides and the fact that the positions are limited risk.\nCalls are contracts that give the right to buy the underlying stock for a given price (strike price) until the expiration date.\nThe most that can be lost is the premium paid for the calls.\nBuying calls requires much less capital, so bigger positions can be taken by small traders.\nThis actually adds to the short squeeze effect.\nWhen retail traders buy calls, it is market makers that sell them.\nThe market makers don't want the risk of being short calls, so they do something called delta hedging.\nWhat Is Delta Hedging, And Why It Matters In A Short Squeeze\nDelta hedging calls requires the market makers to buy stock. And because of the nature of calls, when the price of the underlying stock goes up, the market makers have to buy more stock to stay hedged.\nWe might call this the call option squeeze.\nThe problem is that these moves are not based on any fundamental changes in the stocks.\nNot much has changed for GME stock since it was a $4 stock, and certainly not since it was a $16 stock.\nBrokerage firms are very concerned about the volatility of these moves, as they know they may face losses if customers can't cover positions. They started limiting the positions that can be taken in some of these names.\nThat news came on Jan. 28, which saw GameStop stock price range from over 500 to below 115.\nThis is a trade you wanted to watch out for. While some hedge funds were hurt and some retail traders made fortunes — at least on paper — this still may end badly.\nThe helium holding these stocks up would not last forever.","source":"lsy1610449120050","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>What Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-10-13 09:24 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220>investors</a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\nWhat is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are ...\n\n<a href=\"https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"GME":"游戏驿站","AMC":"AMC院线"},"source_url":"https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1107758297","content_text":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are contributing to these gargantuan moves, but one is surely the classic short squeeze.\nWhile there are some new factors at play in the markets today, the short squeeze has been around as long as shorting stock.\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze\nHere is how the short squeeze works. If traders think a stock's price is going lower, they canshort the stock. They borrow shares and sell them, with the intent of buying them back at lower prices.\nThis is mostly done by institutional investors, like hedge funds, given the risks and the margin required.\nAnd there are big risks. Stocks can theoretically go up infinitely. So a trader who is short can face theoretically infinite losses.\nSome stocks attract very high short interest, which can be viewed as the amount of shares sold short as a percentage of float, or how much stock has been issued that is available for trading.\nThe problem comes if the stock prices starts to rise quickly. Those that are short the stock will likely receive a margin call. They either have to put more money up to secure their position or close their positions.\nIf they choose to — or are forced to — close their position, they are buying the stock to close out their position. This can push the price higher and force other short sellers to do the same. This creates a reinforcing loop of buying and pushing the price higher. This is the short squeeze, as those short the market get \"squeezed\" out.\nShort Squeeze Stocks: GME\nThis is definitely part of what was happening in GameStop(GME) stock. In August of 2020, GME stock was trading for around 4.\nShares steadily climbed higher to close out 2020 just under 20 on the back of some big name investors taking stakes in the company. This attracted the short sellers, notably some big hedge funds. Then, on Jan. 13, the stock jumped to hit a high of almost 40 on huge volume.\nThat was surely the start of the short squeeze. That 40 level held for about a week. On Jan. 22, the stock jumped again, trading above 70 on the biggest volume day up to that point.\nThe next day the stock hit a high of almost 160 with similar action the next day. Then on Jan. 27 the stock doubled again, trading up to 380. The Jan. 28 high was 483.\nWhile short squeezes are nothing new, this action is unprecedented. The action is certainly partly stock buying by the Reddit group wallstreetbets.\nAnd while many are cheering that the little retail traders are beating up the big institutional shorts, it is pretty clear that other institutions are also in on this buying. Stories have popped up about Michael Burry's gains on GME stock and Elon Musk was tweeting about it.\nHedge Fund Losses\nThere are some big losses in this squeeze.\nTwo funds in particular have been hard hit. Citron Research and Melvin Capital have reportedly suffered huge losses.\nMelvin is down 30% in 2021 on the back of a GME stock short position. It turned to Steven Cohen of Point72 Capital and Chicago-based Citadel to bail it out.\nThe short squeeze is usually something inflicted by one hedge fund on another.\nThis is really the first time we have seen such trading instigated by a band of retail traders.\nOptions Trading Is Also A Big Factor\nAnother piece of this story's plot is the fact that much of the trading in GME and other names like AMC Entertainment(AMC) and BlackBerry(BB) is actually taking place in the options market.\nBullish call buying instead of buying the stock is attractive here because of the leverage it provides and the fact that the positions are limited risk.\nCalls are contracts that give the right to buy the underlying stock for a given price (strike price) until the expiration date.\nThe most that can be lost is the premium paid for the calls.\nBuying calls requires much less capital, so bigger positions can be taken by small traders.\nThis actually adds to the short squeeze effect.\nWhen retail traders buy calls, it is market makers that sell them.\nThe market makers don't want the risk of being short calls, so they do something called delta hedging.\nWhat Is Delta Hedging, And Why It Matters In A Short Squeeze\nDelta hedging calls requires the market makers to buy stock. And because of the nature of calls, when the price of the underlying stock goes up, the market makers have to buy more stock to stay hedged.\nWe might call this the call option squeeze.\nThe problem is that these moves are not based on any fundamental changes in the stocks.\nNot much has changed for GME stock since it was a $4 stock, and certainly not since it was a $16 stock.\nBrokerage firms are very concerned about the volatility of these moves, as they know they may face losses if customers can't cover positions. They started limiting the positions that can be taken in some of these names.\nThat news came on Jan. 28, which saw GameStop stock price range from over 500 to below 115.\nThis is a trade you wanted to watch out for. While some hedge funds were hurt and some retail traders made fortunes — at least on paper — this still may end badly.\nThe helium holding these stocks up would not last forever.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"CN"},{"id":822139180,"gmtCreate":1634099170572,"gmtModify":1634099315461,"author":{"id":"3575275375929012","authorId":"3575275375929012","name":"RTWL","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c8e48bad8fa92b8f46711dd9817bd787","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3575275375929012","authorIdStr":"3575275375929012"},"htmlText":"Buy more gme? Got it 🚀","listText":"Buy more gme? Got it 🚀","text":"Buy more gme? Got it 🚀","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":4,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/822139180","repostId":1107758297,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1107758297","pubTimestamp":1634088266,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1107758297?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-10-13 09:24","market":"us","language":"en","title":"What Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1107758297","media":"investors","summary":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make ","content":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are contributing to these gargantuan moves, but one is surely the classic short squeeze.\nWhile there are some new factors at play in the markets today, the short squeeze has been around as long as shorting stock.\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze\nHere is how the short squeeze works. If traders think a stock's price is going lower, they canshort the stock. They borrow shares and sell them, with the intent of buying them back at lower prices.\nThis is mostly done by institutional investors, like hedge funds, given the risks and the margin required.\nAnd there are big risks. Stocks can theoretically go up infinitely. So a&nbsp;trader who is short&nbsp;can face theoretically infinite losses.\nSome stocks attract&nbsp;very high short interest, which can be viewed as the amount of shares sold short as a percentage of float, or how much stock has been issued that is available for trading.\nThe problem comes if the stock prices starts to rise quickly. Those that are short the stock will likely receive a margin call. They either have to put more money up to secure their position or close their positions.\nIf they choose to — or are forced to — close their position, they are buying the stock to close out their position. This can push the price higher and force other short sellers to do the same. This creates a reinforcing loop of buying and pushing the price higher. This is the short squeeze, as those short the market get \"squeezed\" out.\nShort Squeeze Stocks: GME\nThis is definitely part of what was happening in&nbsp;GameStop(GME) stock. In August of 2020, GME stock was trading for around 4.\nShares steadily climbed higher to close out 2020 just under 20 on the back of some big name investors taking stakes in the company. This attracted the short sellers, notably some big hedge funds. Then, on Jan. 13, the stock jumped to hit a high of almost 40 on huge volume.\nThat was surely the start of the short squeeze. That 40 level held for about a week. On Jan. 22, the stock jumped again, trading above 70 on the biggest volume day up to that point.\nThe next day the stock hit a high of almost 160 with similar action the next day. Then on Jan. 27 the stock doubled again, trading up to 380. The Jan. 28 high was 483.\nWhile short squeezes are nothing new, this action is unprecedented. The action is certainly partly stock buying by the Reddit group wallstreetbets.\nAnd while many are cheering that the little retail traders are beating up the big institutional shorts, it is pretty clear that other institutions are also in on this buying. Stories have popped up about Michael Burry's gains on GME stock and Elon Musk was tweeting about it.\nHedge Fund Losses\nThere are some big losses in this squeeze.\nTwo funds in particular have been hard hit. Citron Research and Melvin Capital have reportedly suffered huge losses.\nMelvin is down 30% in 2021 on the back of a GME stock short position. It turned to Steven Cohen of Point72 Capital and Chicago-based Citadel to bail it out.\nThe short squeeze is usually something inflicted by one hedge fund on another.\nThis is really the first time we have seen such trading instigated by a band of retail traders.\nOptions Trading Is Also A Big Factor\nAnother piece of this story's plot is the fact that much of the trading in GME and other names like&nbsp;AMC Entertainment(AMC) and&nbsp;BlackBerry(BB) is actually taking place in the&nbsp;options market.\nBullish call buying instead of buying the stock is attractive here because of the leverage it provides and the fact that the positions are limited risk.\nCalls are contracts that give the right to buy the underlying stock for a given price (strike price) until the expiration date.\nThe most that can be lost is the premium paid for the calls.\nBuying calls requires much less capital, so bigger positions can be taken by small traders.\nThis actually adds to the short squeeze effect.\nWhen retail traders buy calls, it is market makers that sell them.\nThe market makers don't want the risk of being short calls, so they do something called delta hedging.\nWhat Is Delta Hedging, And Why It Matters In A Short Squeeze\nDelta hedging calls requires the market makers to buy stock. And because of the nature of calls, when the price of the underlying stock goes up, the market makers have to buy more stock to stay hedged.\nWe might call this the call option squeeze.\nThe problem is that these moves are not based on any fundamental changes in the stocks.\nNot much has changed for GME stock since it was a $4 stock, and certainly not since it was a $16 stock.\nBrokerage firms are very concerned about the volatility of these moves, as they know they may face losses if customers can't cover positions. They started limiting the positions that can be taken in some of these names.\nThat news came on Jan. 28, which saw GameStop stock price range from over 500 to below 115.\nThis is a trade you wanted to watch out for. While some hedge funds were hurt and some retail traders made fortunes — at least on paper — this still may end badly.\nThe helium holding these stocks up would not last forever.","source":"lsy1610449120050","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>What Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-10-13 09:24 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220>investors</a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\nWhat is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are ...\n\n<a href=\"https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"GME":"游戏驿站","AMC":"AMC院线"},"source_url":"https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1107758297","content_text":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are contributing to these gargantuan moves, but one is surely the classic short squeeze.\nWhile there are some new factors at play in the markets today, the short squeeze has been around as long as shorting stock.\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze\nHere is how the short squeeze works. If traders think a stock's price is going lower, they canshort the stock. They borrow shares and sell them, with the intent of buying them back at lower prices.\nThis is mostly done by institutional investors, like hedge funds, given the risks and the margin required.\nAnd there are big risks. Stocks can theoretically go up infinitely. So a trader who is short can face theoretically infinite losses.\nSome stocks attract very high short interest, which can be viewed as the amount of shares sold short as a percentage of float, or how much stock has been issued that is available for trading.\nThe problem comes if the stock prices starts to rise quickly. Those that are short the stock will likely receive a margin call. They either have to put more money up to secure their position or close their positions.\nIf they choose to — or are forced to — close their position, they are buying the stock to close out their position. This can push the price higher and force other short sellers to do the same. This creates a reinforcing loop of buying and pushing the price higher. This is the short squeeze, as those short the market get \"squeezed\" out.\nShort Squeeze Stocks: GME\nThis is definitely part of what was happening in GameStop(GME) stock. In August of 2020, GME stock was trading for around 4.\nShares steadily climbed higher to close out 2020 just under 20 on the back of some big name investors taking stakes in the company. This attracted the short sellers, notably some big hedge funds. Then, on Jan. 13, the stock jumped to hit a high of almost 40 on huge volume.\nThat was surely the start of the short squeeze. That 40 level held for about a week. On Jan. 22, the stock jumped again, trading above 70 on the biggest volume day up to that point.\nThe next day the stock hit a high of almost 160 with similar action the next day. Then on Jan. 27 the stock doubled again, trading up to 380. The Jan. 28 high was 483.\nWhile short squeezes are nothing new, this action is unprecedented. The action is certainly partly stock buying by the Reddit group wallstreetbets.\nAnd while many are cheering that the little retail traders are beating up the big institutional shorts, it is pretty clear that other institutions are also in on this buying. Stories have popped up about Michael Burry's gains on GME stock and Elon Musk was tweeting about it.\nHedge Fund Losses\nThere are some big losses in this squeeze.\nTwo funds in particular have been hard hit. Citron Research and Melvin Capital have reportedly suffered huge losses.\nMelvin is down 30% in 2021 on the back of a GME stock short position. It turned to Steven Cohen of Point72 Capital and Chicago-based Citadel to bail it out.\nThe short squeeze is usually something inflicted by one hedge fund on another.\nThis is really the first time we have seen such trading instigated by a band of retail traders.\nOptions Trading Is Also A Big Factor\nAnother piece of this story's plot is the fact that much of the trading in GME and other names like AMC Entertainment(AMC) and BlackBerry(BB) is actually taking place in the options market.\nBullish call buying instead of buying the stock is attractive here because of the leverage it provides and the fact that the positions are limited risk.\nCalls are contracts that give the right to buy the underlying stock for a given price (strike price) until the expiration date.\nThe most that can be lost is the premium paid for the calls.\nBuying calls requires much less capital, so bigger positions can be taken by small traders.\nThis actually adds to the short squeeze effect.\nWhen retail traders buy calls, it is market makers that sell them.\nThe market makers don't want the risk of being short calls, so they do something called delta hedging.\nWhat Is Delta Hedging, And Why It Matters In A Short Squeeze\nDelta hedging calls requires the market makers to buy stock. And because of the nature of calls, when the price of the underlying stock goes up, the market makers have to buy more stock to stay hedged.\nWe might call this the call option squeeze.\nThe problem is that these moves are not based on any fundamental changes in the stocks.\nNot much has changed for GME stock since it was a $4 stock, and certainly not since it was a $16 stock.\nBrokerage firms are very concerned about the volatility of these moves, as they know they may face losses if customers can't cover positions. They started limiting the positions that can be taken in some of these names.\nThat news came on Jan. 28, which saw GameStop stock price range from over 500 to below 115.\nThis is a trade you wanted to watch out for. While some hedge funds were hurt and some retail traders made fortunes — at least on paper — this still may end badly.\nThe helium holding these stocks up would not last forever.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"CN"},{"id":822139987,"gmtCreate":1634099148690,"gmtModify":1634099314760,"author":{"id":"3575526336445956","authorId":"3575526336445956","name":"EagleE","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/ef485a4354d28f92b1d1486c2ea7e7b5","vip":1,"crmLevel":4,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3575526336445956","authorIdStr":"3575526336445956"},"htmlText":"Good to know, great article. Thanks for sharing.&nbsp;","listText":"Good to know, great article. Thanks for sharing.&nbsp;","text":"Good to know, great article. Thanks for sharing.","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":3,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/822139987","repostId":1107758297,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1107758297","pubTimestamp":1634088266,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1107758297?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-10-13 09:24","market":"us","language":"en","title":"What Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1107758297","media":"investors","summary":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make ","content":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are contributing to these gargantuan moves, but one is surely the classic short squeeze.\nWhile there are some new factors at play in the markets today, the short squeeze has been around as long as shorting stock.\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze\nHere is how the short squeeze works. If traders think a stock's price is going lower, they canshort the stock. They borrow shares and sell them, with the intent of buying them back at lower prices.\nThis is mostly done by institutional investors, like hedge funds, given the risks and the margin required.\nAnd there are big risks. Stocks can theoretically go up infinitely. So a&nbsp;trader who is short&nbsp;can face theoretically infinite losses.\nSome stocks attract&nbsp;very high short interest, which can be viewed as the amount of shares sold short as a percentage of float, or how much stock has been issued that is available for trading.\nThe problem comes if the stock prices starts to rise quickly. Those that are short the stock will likely receive a margin call. They either have to put more money up to secure their position or close their positions.\nIf they choose to — or are forced to — close their position, they are buying the stock to close out their position. This can push the price higher and force other short sellers to do the same. This creates a reinforcing loop of buying and pushing the price higher. This is the short squeeze, as those short the market get \"squeezed\" out.\nShort Squeeze Stocks: GME\nThis is definitely part of what was happening in&nbsp;GameStop(GME) stock. In August of 2020, GME stock was trading for around 4.\nShares steadily climbed higher to close out 2020 just under 20 on the back of some big name investors taking stakes in the company. This attracted the short sellers, notably some big hedge funds. Then, on Jan. 13, the stock jumped to hit a high of almost 40 on huge volume.\nThat was surely the start of the short squeeze. That 40 level held for about a week. On Jan. 22, the stock jumped again, trading above 70 on the biggest volume day up to that point.\nThe next day the stock hit a high of almost 160 with similar action the next day. Then on Jan. 27 the stock doubled again, trading up to 380. The Jan. 28 high was 483.\nWhile short squeezes are nothing new, this action is unprecedented. The action is certainly partly stock buying by the Reddit group wallstreetbets.\nAnd while many are cheering that the little retail traders are beating up the big institutional shorts, it is pretty clear that other institutions are also in on this buying. Stories have popped up about Michael Burry's gains on GME stock and Elon Musk was tweeting about it.\nHedge Fund Losses\nThere are some big losses in this squeeze.\nTwo funds in particular have been hard hit. Citron Research and Melvin Capital have reportedly suffered huge losses.\nMelvin is down 30% in 2021 on the back of a GME stock short position. It turned to Steven Cohen of Point72 Capital and Chicago-based Citadel to bail it out.\nThe short squeeze is usually something inflicted by one hedge fund on another.\nThis is really the first time we have seen such trading instigated by a band of retail traders.\nOptions Trading Is Also A Big Factor\nAnother piece of this story's plot is the fact that much of the trading in GME and other names like&nbsp;AMC Entertainment(AMC) and&nbsp;BlackBerry(BB) is actually taking place in the&nbsp;options market.\nBullish call buying instead of buying the stock is attractive here because of the leverage it provides and the fact that the positions are limited risk.\nCalls are contracts that give the right to buy the underlying stock for a given price (strike price) until the expiration date.\nThe most that can be lost is the premium paid for the calls.\nBuying calls requires much less capital, so bigger positions can be taken by small traders.\nThis actually adds to the short squeeze effect.\nWhen retail traders buy calls, it is market makers that sell them.\nThe market makers don't want the risk of being short calls, so they do something called delta hedging.\nWhat Is Delta Hedging, And Why It Matters In A Short Squeeze\nDelta hedging calls requires the market makers to buy stock. And because of the nature of calls, when the price of the underlying stock goes up, the market makers have to buy more stock to stay hedged.\nWe might call this the call option squeeze.\nThe problem is that these moves are not based on any fundamental changes in the stocks.\nNot much has changed for GME stock since it was a $4 stock, and certainly not since it was a $16 stock.\nBrokerage firms are very concerned about the volatility of these moves, as they know they may face losses if customers can't cover positions. They started limiting the positions that can be taken in some of these names.\nThat news came on Jan. 28, which saw GameStop stock price range from over 500 to below 115.\nThis is a trade you wanted to watch out for. While some hedge funds were hurt and some retail traders made fortunes — at least on paper — this still may end badly.\nThe helium holding these stocks up would not last forever.","source":"lsy1610449120050","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>What Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-10-13 09:24 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220>investors</a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\nWhat is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are ...\n\n<a href=\"https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"GME":"游戏驿站","AMC":"AMC院线"},"source_url":"https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1107758297","content_text":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are contributing to these gargantuan moves, but one is surely the classic short squeeze.\nWhile there are some new factors at play in the markets today, the short squeeze has been around as long as shorting stock.\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze\nHere is how the short squeeze works. If traders think a stock's price is going lower, they canshort the stock. They borrow shares and sell them, with the intent of buying them back at lower prices.\nThis is mostly done by institutional investors, like hedge funds, given the risks and the margin required.\nAnd there are big risks. Stocks can theoretically go up infinitely. So a trader who is short can face theoretically infinite losses.\nSome stocks attract very high short interest, which can be viewed as the amount of shares sold short as a percentage of float, or how much stock has been issued that is available for trading.\nThe problem comes if the stock prices starts to rise quickly. Those that are short the stock will likely receive a margin call. They either have to put more money up to secure their position or close their positions.\nIf they choose to — or are forced to — close their position, they are buying the stock to close out their position. This can push the price higher and force other short sellers to do the same. This creates a reinforcing loop of buying and pushing the price higher. This is the short squeeze, as those short the market get \"squeezed\" out.\nShort Squeeze Stocks: GME\nThis is definitely part of what was happening in GameStop(GME) stock. In August of 2020, GME stock was trading for around 4.\nShares steadily climbed higher to close out 2020 just under 20 on the back of some big name investors taking stakes in the company. This attracted the short sellers, notably some big hedge funds. Then, on Jan. 13, the stock jumped to hit a high of almost 40 on huge volume.\nThat was surely the start of the short squeeze. That 40 level held for about a week. On Jan. 22, the stock jumped again, trading above 70 on the biggest volume day up to that point.\nThe next day the stock hit a high of almost 160 with similar action the next day. Then on Jan. 27 the stock doubled again, trading up to 380. The Jan. 28 high was 483.\nWhile short squeezes are nothing new, this action is unprecedented. The action is certainly partly stock buying by the Reddit group wallstreetbets.\nAnd while many are cheering that the little retail traders are beating up the big institutional shorts, it is pretty clear that other institutions are also in on this buying. Stories have popped up about Michael Burry's gains on GME stock and Elon Musk was tweeting about it.\nHedge Fund Losses\nThere are some big losses in this squeeze.\nTwo funds in particular have been hard hit. Citron Research and Melvin Capital have reportedly suffered huge losses.\nMelvin is down 30% in 2021 on the back of a GME stock short position. It turned to Steven Cohen of Point72 Capital and Chicago-based Citadel to bail it out.\nThe short squeeze is usually something inflicted by one hedge fund on another.\nThis is really the first time we have seen such trading instigated by a band of retail traders.\nOptions Trading Is Also A Big Factor\nAnother piece of this story's plot is the fact that much of the trading in GME and other names like AMC Entertainment(AMC) and BlackBerry(BB) is actually taking place in the options market.\nBullish call buying instead of buying the stock is attractive here because of the leverage it provides and the fact that the positions are limited risk.\nCalls are contracts that give the right to buy the underlying stock for a given price (strike price) until the expiration date.\nThe most that can be lost is the premium paid for the calls.\nBuying calls requires much less capital, so bigger positions can be taken by small traders.\nThis actually adds to the short squeeze effect.\nWhen retail traders buy calls, it is market makers that sell them.\nThe market makers don't want the risk of being short calls, so they do something called delta hedging.\nWhat Is Delta Hedging, And Why It Matters In A Short Squeeze\nDelta hedging calls requires the market makers to buy stock. And because of the nature of calls, when the price of the underlying stock goes up, the market makers have to buy more stock to stay hedged.\nWe might call this the call option squeeze.\nThe problem is that these moves are not based on any fundamental changes in the stocks.\nNot much has changed for GME stock since it was a $4 stock, and certainly not since it was a $16 stock.\nBrokerage firms are very concerned about the volatility of these moves, as they know they may face losses if customers can't cover positions. They started limiting the positions that can be taken in some of these names.\nThat news came on Jan. 28, which saw GameStop stock price range from over 500 to below 115.\nThis is a trade you wanted to watch out for. While some hedge funds were hurt and some retail traders made fortunes — at least on paper — this still may end badly.\nThe helium holding these stocks up would not last forever.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"CN"},{"id":822197565,"gmtCreate":1634098970294,"gmtModify":1634098970294,"author":{"id":"3559581955535845","authorId":"3559581955535845","name":"koolgal","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c05274d88ffc0434623e57350c52c70a","vip":2,"crmLevel":6,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3559581955535845","authorIdStr":"3559581955535845"},"htmlText":"Great article on short squeeze but it is definitely not for the faint hearted! 👍😊","listText":"Great article on short squeeze but it is definitely not for the faint hearted! 👍😊","text":"Great article on short squeeze but it is definitely not for the faint hearted! 👍😊","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":15,"commentSize":4,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/822197565","repostId":1107758297,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1107758297","pubTimestamp":1634088266,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1107758297?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-10-13 09:24","market":"us","language":"en","title":"What Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1107758297","media":"investors","summary":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make ","content":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are contributing to these gargantuan moves, but one is surely the classic short squeeze.\nWhile there are some new factors at play in the markets today, the short squeeze has been around as long as shorting stock.\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze\nHere is how the short squeeze works. If traders think a stock's price is going lower, they canshort the stock. They borrow shares and sell them, with the intent of buying them back at lower prices.\nThis is mostly done by institutional investors, like hedge funds, given the risks and the margin required.\nAnd there are big risks. Stocks can theoretically go up infinitely. So a&nbsp;trader who is short&nbsp;can face theoretically infinite losses.\nSome stocks attract&nbsp;very high short interest, which can be viewed as the amount of shares sold short as a percentage of float, or how much stock has been issued that is available for trading.\nThe problem comes if the stock prices starts to rise quickly. Those that are short the stock will likely receive a margin call. They either have to put more money up to secure their position or close their positions.\nIf they choose to — or are forced to — close their position, they are buying the stock to close out their position. This can push the price higher and force other short sellers to do the same. This creates a reinforcing loop of buying and pushing the price higher. This is the short squeeze, as those short the market get \"squeezed\" out.\nShort Squeeze Stocks: GME\nThis is definitely part of what was happening in&nbsp;GameStop(GME) stock. In August of 2020, GME stock was trading for around 4.\nShares steadily climbed higher to close out 2020 just under 20 on the back of some big name investors taking stakes in the company. This attracted the short sellers, notably some big hedge funds. Then, on Jan. 13, the stock jumped to hit a high of almost 40 on huge volume.\nThat was surely the start of the short squeeze. That 40 level held for about a week. On Jan. 22, the stock jumped again, trading above 70 on the biggest volume day up to that point.\nThe next day the stock hit a high of almost 160 with similar action the next day. Then on Jan. 27 the stock doubled again, trading up to 380. The Jan. 28 high was 483.\nWhile short squeezes are nothing new, this action is unprecedented. The action is certainly partly stock buying by the Reddit group wallstreetbets.\nAnd while many are cheering that the little retail traders are beating up the big institutional shorts, it is pretty clear that other institutions are also in on this buying. Stories have popped up about Michael Burry's gains on GME stock and Elon Musk was tweeting about it.\nHedge Fund Losses\nThere are some big losses in this squeeze.\nTwo funds in particular have been hard hit. Citron Research and Melvin Capital have reportedly suffered huge losses.\nMelvin is down 30% in 2021 on the back of a GME stock short position. It turned to Steven Cohen of Point72 Capital and Chicago-based Citadel to bail it out.\nThe short squeeze is usually something inflicted by one hedge fund on another.\nThis is really the first time we have seen such trading instigated by a band of retail traders.\nOptions Trading Is Also A Big Factor\nAnother piece of this story's plot is the fact that much of the trading in GME and other names like&nbsp;AMC Entertainment(AMC) and&nbsp;BlackBerry(BB) is actually taking place in the&nbsp;options market.\nBullish call buying instead of buying the stock is attractive here because of the leverage it provides and the fact that the positions are limited risk.\nCalls are contracts that give the right to buy the underlying stock for a given price (strike price) until the expiration date.\nThe most that can be lost is the premium paid for the calls.\nBuying calls requires much less capital, so bigger positions can be taken by small traders.\nThis actually adds to the short squeeze effect.\nWhen retail traders buy calls, it is market makers that sell them.\nThe market makers don't want the risk of being short calls, so they do something called delta hedging.\nWhat Is Delta Hedging, And Why It Matters In A Short Squeeze\nDelta hedging calls requires the market makers to buy stock. And because of the nature of calls, when the price of the underlying stock goes up, the market makers have to buy more stock to stay hedged.\nWe might call this the call option squeeze.\nThe problem is that these moves are not based on any fundamental changes in the stocks.\nNot much has changed for GME stock since it was a $4 stock, and certainly not since it was a $16 stock.\nBrokerage firms are very concerned about the volatility of these moves, as they know they may face losses if customers can't cover positions. They started limiting the positions that can be taken in some of these names.\nThat news came on Jan. 28, which saw GameStop stock price range from over 500 to below 115.\nThis is a trade you wanted to watch out for. While some hedge funds were hurt and some retail traders made fortunes — at least on paper — this still may end badly.\nThe helium holding these stocks up would not last forever.","source":"lsy1610449120050","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>What Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-10-13 09:24 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220>investors</a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\nWhat is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are ...\n\n<a href=\"https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"GME":"游戏驿站","AMC":"AMC院线"},"source_url":"https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1107758297","content_text":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are contributing to these gargantuan moves, but one is surely the classic short squeeze.\nWhile there are some new factors at play in the markets today, the short squeeze has been around as long as shorting stock.\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze\nHere is how the short squeeze works. If traders think a stock's price is going lower, they canshort the stock. They borrow shares and sell them, with the intent of buying them back at lower prices.\nThis is mostly done by institutional investors, like hedge funds, given the risks and the margin required.\nAnd there are big risks. Stocks can theoretically go up infinitely. So a trader who is short can face theoretically infinite losses.\nSome stocks attract very high short interest, which can be viewed as the amount of shares sold short as a percentage of float, or how much stock has been issued that is available for trading.\nThe problem comes if the stock prices starts to rise quickly. Those that are short the stock will likely receive a margin call. They either have to put more money up to secure their position or close their positions.\nIf they choose to — or are forced to — close their position, they are buying the stock to close out their position. This can push the price higher and force other short sellers to do the same. This creates a reinforcing loop of buying and pushing the price higher. This is the short squeeze, as those short the market get \"squeezed\" out.\nShort Squeeze Stocks: GME\nThis is definitely part of what was happening in GameStop(GME) stock. In August of 2020, GME stock was trading for around 4.\nShares steadily climbed higher to close out 2020 just under 20 on the back of some big name investors taking stakes in the company. This attracted the short sellers, notably some big hedge funds. Then, on Jan. 13, the stock jumped to hit a high of almost 40 on huge volume.\nThat was surely the start of the short squeeze. That 40 level held for about a week. On Jan. 22, the stock jumped again, trading above 70 on the biggest volume day up to that point.\nThe next day the stock hit a high of almost 160 with similar action the next day. Then on Jan. 27 the stock doubled again, trading up to 380. The Jan. 28 high was 483.\nWhile short squeezes are nothing new, this action is unprecedented. The action is certainly partly stock buying by the Reddit group wallstreetbets.\nAnd while many are cheering that the little retail traders are beating up the big institutional shorts, it is pretty clear that other institutions are also in on this buying. Stories have popped up about Michael Burry's gains on GME stock and Elon Musk was tweeting about it.\nHedge Fund Losses\nThere are some big losses in this squeeze.\nTwo funds in particular have been hard hit. Citron Research and Melvin Capital have reportedly suffered huge losses.\nMelvin is down 30% in 2021 on the back of a GME stock short position. It turned to Steven Cohen of Point72 Capital and Chicago-based Citadel to bail it out.\nThe short squeeze is usually something inflicted by one hedge fund on another.\nThis is really the first time we have seen such trading instigated by a band of retail traders.\nOptions Trading Is Also A Big Factor\nAnother piece of this story's plot is the fact that much of the trading in GME and other names like AMC Entertainment(AMC) and BlackBerry(BB) is actually taking place in the options market.\nBullish call buying instead of buying the stock is attractive here because of the leverage it provides and the fact that the positions are limited risk.\nCalls are contracts that give the right to buy the underlying stock for a given price (strike price) until the expiration date.\nThe most that can be lost is the premium paid for the calls.\nBuying calls requires much less capital, so bigger positions can be taken by small traders.\nThis actually adds to the short squeeze effect.\nWhen retail traders buy calls, it is market makers that sell them.\nThe market makers don't want the risk of being short calls, so they do something called delta hedging.\nWhat Is Delta Hedging, And Why It Matters In A Short Squeeze\nDelta hedging calls requires the market makers to buy stock. And because of the nature of calls, when the price of the underlying stock goes up, the market makers have to buy more stock to stay hedged.\nWe might call this the call option squeeze.\nThe problem is that these moves are not based on any fundamental changes in the stocks.\nNot much has changed for GME stock since it was a $4 stock, and certainly not since it was a $16 stock.\nBrokerage firms are very concerned about the volatility of these moves, as they know they may face losses if customers can't cover positions. They started limiting the positions that can be taken in some of these names.\nThat news came on Jan. 28, which saw GameStop stock price range from over 500 to below 115.\nThis is a trade you wanted to watch out for. While some hedge funds were hurt and some retail traders made fortunes — at least on paper — this still may end badly.\nThe helium holding these stocks up would not last forever.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":6182560,"gmtCreate":1634102174489,"gmtModify":1634637036036,"authorId":3573535861568306,"author":{"id":3573535861568306,"idStr":"3573535861568306","authorId":3573535861568306,"name":"JJ918","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a9f1fafcbc2b7b07b17f1aa7a032faa9","vip":1,"crmLevel":5,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":822197565,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"[Smile]","text":"[Smile]","html":"[Smile]"},{"id":6184752,"gmtCreate":1634126010396,"gmtModify":1634636868532,"authorId":4091089381144950,"author":{"id":4091089381144950,"idStr":"4091089381144950","authorId":4091089381144950,"name":"滚股怪","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b67621b4133ca0db91bff9766152a448","vip":1,"crmLevel":4,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":822197565,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Like","text":"Like","html":"Like"},{"id":6191073,"gmtCreate":1634173896420,"gmtModify":1634173896420,"authorId":3559581955535845,"author":{"id":3559581955535845,"idStr":"3559581955535845","authorId":3559581955535845,"name":"koolgal","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c05274d88ffc0434623e57350c52c70a","vip":2,"crmLevel":6,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":822197565,"type":1,"supId":6184752,"prevId":0,"content":"Thanks 👍😉","text":"Thanks 👍😉","html":"Thanks 👍😉"},{"id":6182664,"gmtCreate":1634102874068,"gmtModify":1634102874068,"authorId":3559581955535845,"author":{"id":3559581955535845,"idStr":"3559581955535845","authorId":3559581955535845,"name":"koolgal","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c05274d88ffc0434623e57350c52c70a","vip":2,"crmLevel":6,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":822197565,"type":1,"supId":6182560,"prevId":0,"content":"Thanks 👍😊","text":"Thanks 👍😊","html":"Thanks 👍😊"}],"langContent":"CN"},{"id":822197877,"gmtCreate":1634098932541,"gmtModify":1634098932541,"author":{"id":"3581063216443091","authorId":"3581063216443091","name":"老Uncle","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/ef0828d104dbb47c9e2122177cf0d3b5","vip":1,"crmLevel":4,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3581063216443091","authorIdStr":"3581063216443091"},"htmlText":"i only know what is squeeze orange. ya la drink orange juice la 😗😗","listText":"i only know what is squeeze orange. ya la drink orange juice la 😗😗","text":"i only know what is squeeze orange. ya la drink orange juice la 😗😗","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":5,"commentSize":7,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/822197877","repostId":1107758297,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1107758297","pubTimestamp":1634088266,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1107758297?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-10-13 09:24","market":"us","language":"en","title":"What Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1107758297","media":"investors","summary":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make ","content":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are contributing to these gargantuan moves, but one is surely the classic short squeeze.\nWhile there are some new factors at play in the markets today, the short squeeze has been around as long as shorting stock.\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze\nHere is how the short squeeze works. If traders think a stock's price is going lower, they canshort the stock. They borrow shares and sell them, with the intent of buying them back at lower prices.\nThis is mostly done by institutional investors, like hedge funds, given the risks and the margin required.\nAnd there are big risks. Stocks can theoretically go up infinitely. So a&nbsp;trader who is short&nbsp;can face theoretically infinite losses.\nSome stocks attract&nbsp;very high short interest, which can be viewed as the amount of shares sold short as a percentage of float, or how much stock has been issued that is available for trading.\nThe problem comes if the stock prices starts to rise quickly. Those that are short the stock will likely receive a margin call. They either have to put more money up to secure their position or close their positions.\nIf they choose to — or are forced to — close their position, they are buying the stock to close out their position. This can push the price higher and force other short sellers to do the same. This creates a reinforcing loop of buying and pushing the price higher. This is the short squeeze, as those short the market get \"squeezed\" out.\nShort Squeeze Stocks: GME\nThis is definitely part of what was happening in&nbsp;GameStop(GME) stock. In August of 2020, GME stock was trading for around 4.\nShares steadily climbed higher to close out 2020 just under 20 on the back of some big name investors taking stakes in the company. This attracted the short sellers, notably some big hedge funds. Then, on Jan. 13, the stock jumped to hit a high of almost 40 on huge volume.\nThat was surely the start of the short squeeze. That 40 level held for about a week. On Jan. 22, the stock jumped again, trading above 70 on the biggest volume day up to that point.\nThe next day the stock hit a high of almost 160 with similar action the next day. Then on Jan. 27 the stock doubled again, trading up to 380. The Jan. 28 high was 483.\nWhile short squeezes are nothing new, this action is unprecedented. The action is certainly partly stock buying by the Reddit group wallstreetbets.\nAnd while many are cheering that the little retail traders are beating up the big institutional shorts, it is pretty clear that other institutions are also in on this buying. Stories have popped up about Michael Burry's gains on GME stock and Elon Musk was tweeting about it.\nHedge Fund Losses\nThere are some big losses in this squeeze.\nTwo funds in particular have been hard hit. Citron Research and Melvin Capital have reportedly suffered huge losses.\nMelvin is down 30% in 2021 on the back of a GME stock short position. It turned to Steven Cohen of Point72 Capital and Chicago-based Citadel to bail it out.\nThe short squeeze is usually something inflicted by one hedge fund on another.\nThis is really the first time we have seen such trading instigated by a band of retail traders.\nOptions Trading Is Also A Big Factor\nAnother piece of this story's plot is the fact that much of the trading in GME and other names like&nbsp;AMC Entertainment(AMC) and&nbsp;BlackBerry(BB) is actually taking place in the&nbsp;options market.\nBullish call buying instead of buying the stock is attractive here because of the leverage it provides and the fact that the positions are limited risk.\nCalls are contracts that give the right to buy the underlying stock for a given price (strike price) until the expiration date.\nThe most that can be lost is the premium paid for the calls.\nBuying calls requires much less capital, so bigger positions can be taken by small traders.\nThis actually adds to the short squeeze effect.\nWhen retail traders buy calls, it is market makers that sell them.\nThe market makers don't want the risk of being short calls, so they do something called delta hedging.\nWhat Is Delta Hedging, And Why It Matters In A Short Squeeze\nDelta hedging calls requires the market makers to buy stock. And because of the nature of calls, when the price of the underlying stock goes up, the market makers have to buy more stock to stay hedged.\nWe might call this the call option squeeze.\nThe problem is that these moves are not based on any fundamental changes in the stocks.\nNot much has changed for GME stock since it was a $4 stock, and certainly not since it was a $16 stock.\nBrokerage firms are very concerned about the volatility of these moves, as they know they may face losses if customers can't cover positions. They started limiting the positions that can be taken in some of these names.\nThat news came on Jan. 28, which saw GameStop stock price range from over 500 to below 115.\nThis is a trade you wanted to watch out for. While some hedge funds were hurt and some retail traders made fortunes — at least on paper — this still may end badly.\nThe helium holding these stocks up would not last forever.","source":"lsy1610449120050","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>What Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-10-13 09:24 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220>investors</a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\nWhat is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are ...\n\n<a href=\"https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"GME":"游戏驿站","AMC":"AMC院线"},"source_url":"https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1107758297","content_text":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are contributing to these gargantuan moves, but one is surely the classic short squeeze.\nWhile there are some new factors at play in the markets today, the short squeeze has been around as long as shorting stock.\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze\nHere is how the short squeeze works. If traders think a stock's price is going lower, they canshort the stock. They borrow shares and sell them, with the intent of buying them back at lower prices.\nThis is mostly done by institutional investors, like hedge funds, given the risks and the margin required.\nAnd there are big risks. Stocks can theoretically go up infinitely. So a trader who is short can face theoretically infinite losses.\nSome stocks attract very high short interest, which can be viewed as the amount of shares sold short as a percentage of float, or how much stock has been issued that is available for trading.\nThe problem comes if the stock prices starts to rise quickly. Those that are short the stock will likely receive a margin call. They either have to put more money up to secure their position or close their positions.\nIf they choose to — or are forced to — close their position, they are buying the stock to close out their position. This can push the price higher and force other short sellers to do the same. This creates a reinforcing loop of buying and pushing the price higher. This is the short squeeze, as those short the market get \"squeezed\" out.\nShort Squeeze Stocks: GME\nThis is definitely part of what was happening in GameStop(GME) stock. In August of 2020, GME stock was trading for around 4.\nShares steadily climbed higher to close out 2020 just under 20 on the back of some big name investors taking stakes in the company. This attracted the short sellers, notably some big hedge funds. Then, on Jan. 13, the stock jumped to hit a high of almost 40 on huge volume.\nThat was surely the start of the short squeeze. That 40 level held for about a week. On Jan. 22, the stock jumped again, trading above 70 on the biggest volume day up to that point.\nThe next day the stock hit a high of almost 160 with similar action the next day. Then on Jan. 27 the stock doubled again, trading up to 380. The Jan. 28 high was 483.\nWhile short squeezes are nothing new, this action is unprecedented. The action is certainly partly stock buying by the Reddit group wallstreetbets.\nAnd while many are cheering that the little retail traders are beating up the big institutional shorts, it is pretty clear that other institutions are also in on this buying. Stories have popped up about Michael Burry's gains on GME stock and Elon Musk was tweeting about it.\nHedge Fund Losses\nThere are some big losses in this squeeze.\nTwo funds in particular have been hard hit. Citron Research and Melvin Capital have reportedly suffered huge losses.\nMelvin is down 30% in 2021 on the back of a GME stock short position. It turned to Steven Cohen of Point72 Capital and Chicago-based Citadel to bail it out.\nThe short squeeze is usually something inflicted by one hedge fund on another.\nThis is really the first time we have seen such trading instigated by a band of retail traders.\nOptions Trading Is Also A Big Factor\nAnother piece of this story's plot is the fact that much of the trading in GME and other names like AMC Entertainment(AMC) and BlackBerry(BB) is actually taking place in the options market.\nBullish call buying instead of buying the stock is attractive here because of the leverage it provides and the fact that the positions are limited risk.\nCalls are contracts that give the right to buy the underlying stock for a given price (strike price) until the expiration date.\nThe most that can be lost is the premium paid for the calls.\nBuying calls requires much less capital, so bigger positions can be taken by small traders.\nThis actually adds to the short squeeze effect.\nWhen retail traders buy calls, it is market makers that sell them.\nThe market makers don't want the risk of being short calls, so they do something called delta hedging.\nWhat Is Delta Hedging, And Why It Matters In A Short Squeeze\nDelta hedging calls requires the market makers to buy stock. And because of the nature of calls, when the price of the underlying stock goes up, the market makers have to buy more stock to stay hedged.\nWe might call this the call option squeeze.\nThe problem is that these moves are not based on any fundamental changes in the stocks.\nNot much has changed for GME stock since it was a $4 stock, and certainly not since it was a $16 stock.\nBrokerage firms are very concerned about the volatility of these moves, as they know they may face losses if customers can't cover positions. They started limiting the positions that can be taken in some of these names.\nThat news came on Jan. 28, which saw GameStop stock price range from over 500 to below 115.\nThis is a trade you wanted to watch out for. While some hedge funds were hurt and some retail traders made fortunes — at least on paper — this still may end badly.\nThe helium holding these stocks up would not last forever.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":6182184,"gmtCreate":1634099245225,"gmtModify":1634637069148,"authorId":3570099344379608,"author":{"id":3570099344379608,"idStr":"3570099344379608","authorId":3570099344379608,"name":"三轮车跑得快","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":822197877,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Huat ","text":"Huat ","html":"Huat "},{"id":6183074,"gmtCreate":1634107902120,"gmtModify":1634636996554,"authorId":4091377446254780,"author":{"id":4091377446254780,"idStr":"4091377446254780","authorId":4091377446254780,"name":"无忧9696","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c3595c65ef64fb66e90360912665a2a0","vip":1,"crmLevel":8,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":822197877,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"I don’t know anything ah 🌸🌸🌸 Just don’t want to get either Squeezed or play that Squid Game la 😛😛😛","text":"I don’t know anything ah 🌸🌸🌸 Just don’t want to get either Squeezed or play that Squid Game la 😛😛😛","html":"I don’t know anything ah 🌸🌸🌸 Just don’t want to get either Squeezed or play that Squid Game la 😛😛😛"},{"id":6183606,"gmtCreate":1634114127583,"gmtModify":1634636959260,"authorId":4091377446254780,"author":{"id":4091377446254780,"idStr":"4091377446254780","authorId":4091377446254780,"name":"无忧9696","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c3595c65ef64fb66e90360912665a2a0","vip":1,"crmLevel":8,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":3581063216443091,"repliedAuthor":{"id":3581063216443091,"idStr":"3581063216443091","authorId":3581063216443091,"name":"老Uncle","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/ef0828d104dbb47c9e2122177cf0d3b5","vip":1,"crmLevel":4,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"objectId":822197877,"type":1,"supId":6183074,"prevId":6183262,"content":"You are very naughty hor hor hor 😛😛😛","text":"You are very naughty hor hor hor 😛😛😛","html":"You are very naughty hor hor hor 😛😛😛"},{"id":6184750,"gmtCreate":1634125988120,"gmtModify":1634636868641,"authorId":4091089381144950,"author":{"id":4091089381144950,"idStr":"4091089381144950","authorId":4091089381144950,"name":"滚股怪","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b67621b4133ca0db91bff9766152a448","vip":1,"crmLevel":4,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":822197877,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Ues","text":"Ues","html":"Ues"},{"id":6183923,"gmtCreate":1634116723844,"gmtModify":1634116723844,"authorId":3581063216443091,"author":{"id":3581063216443091,"idStr":"3581063216443091","authorId":3581063216443091,"name":"老Uncle","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/ef0828d104dbb47c9e2122177cf0d3b5","vip":1,"crmLevel":4,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":4091377446254780,"repliedAuthor":{"id":4091377446254780,"idStr":"4091377446254780","authorId":4091377446254780,"name":"无忧9696","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c3595c65ef64fb66e90360912665a2a0","vip":1,"crmLevel":8,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"objectId":822197877,"type":1,"supId":6183074,"prevId":6183606,"content":"😗😗","text":"😗😗","html":"😗😗"}],"langContent":"CN"},{"id":822197013,"gmtCreate":1634098917634,"gmtModify":1634099005738,"author":{"id":"3575091428590185","authorId":"3575091428590185","name":"HENRYCSC","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/6d47a6dec25b21dc547a5b982674c499","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3575091428590185","authorIdStr":"3575091428590185"},"htmlText":"AMC [Smile]&nbsp;","listText":"AMC [Smile]&nbsp;","text":"AMC [Smile]","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/822197013","repostId":1107758297,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1107758297","pubTimestamp":1634088266,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1107758297?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-10-13 09:24","market":"us","language":"en","title":"What Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1107758297","media":"investors","summary":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make ","content":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are contributing to these gargantuan moves, but one is surely the classic short squeeze.\nWhile there are some new factors at play in the markets today, the short squeeze has been around as long as shorting stock.\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze\nHere is how the short squeeze works. If traders think a stock's price is going lower, they canshort the stock. They borrow shares and sell them, with the intent of buying them back at lower prices.\nThis is mostly done by institutional investors, like hedge funds, given the risks and the margin required.\nAnd there are big risks. Stocks can theoretically go up infinitely. So a&nbsp;trader who is short&nbsp;can face theoretically infinite losses.\nSome stocks attract&nbsp;very high short interest, which can be viewed as the amount of shares sold short as a percentage of float, or how much stock has been issued that is available for trading.\nThe problem comes if the stock prices starts to rise quickly. Those that are short the stock will likely receive a margin call. They either have to put more money up to secure their position or close their positions.\nIf they choose to — or are forced to — close their position, they are buying the stock to close out their position. This can push the price higher and force other short sellers to do the same. This creates a reinforcing loop of buying and pushing the price higher. This is the short squeeze, as those short the market get \"squeezed\" out.\nShort Squeeze Stocks: GME\nThis is definitely part of what was happening in&nbsp;GameStop(GME) stock. In August of 2020, GME stock was trading for around 4.\nShares steadily climbed higher to close out 2020 just under 20 on the back of some big name investors taking stakes in the company. This attracted the short sellers, notably some big hedge funds. Then, on Jan. 13, the stock jumped to hit a high of almost 40 on huge volume.\nThat was surely the start of the short squeeze. That 40 level held for about a week. On Jan. 22, the stock jumped again, trading above 70 on the biggest volume day up to that point.\nThe next day the stock hit a high of almost 160 with similar action the next day. Then on Jan. 27 the stock doubled again, trading up to 380. The Jan. 28 high was 483.\nWhile short squeezes are nothing new, this action is unprecedented. The action is certainly partly stock buying by the Reddit group wallstreetbets.\nAnd while many are cheering that the little retail traders are beating up the big institutional shorts, it is pretty clear that other institutions are also in on this buying. Stories have popped up about Michael Burry's gains on GME stock and Elon Musk was tweeting about it.\nHedge Fund Losses\nThere are some big losses in this squeeze.\nTwo funds in particular have been hard hit. Citron Research and Melvin Capital have reportedly suffered huge losses.\nMelvin is down 30% in 2021 on the back of a GME stock short position. It turned to Steven Cohen of Point72 Capital and Chicago-based Citadel to bail it out.\nThe short squeeze is usually something inflicted by one hedge fund on another.\nThis is really the first time we have seen such trading instigated by a band of retail traders.\nOptions Trading Is Also A Big Factor\nAnother piece of this story's plot is the fact that much of the trading in GME and other names like&nbsp;AMC Entertainment(AMC) and&nbsp;BlackBerry(BB) is actually taking place in the&nbsp;options market.\nBullish call buying instead of buying the stock is attractive here because of the leverage it provides and the fact that the positions are limited risk.\nCalls are contracts that give the right to buy the underlying stock for a given price (strike price) until the expiration date.\nThe most that can be lost is the premium paid for the calls.\nBuying calls requires much less capital, so bigger positions can be taken by small traders.\nThis actually adds to the short squeeze effect.\nWhen retail traders buy calls, it is market makers that sell them.\nThe market makers don't want the risk of being short calls, so they do something called delta hedging.\nWhat Is Delta Hedging, And Why It Matters In A Short Squeeze\nDelta hedging calls requires the market makers to buy stock. And because of the nature of calls, when the price of the underlying stock goes up, the market makers have to buy more stock to stay hedged.\nWe might call this the call option squeeze.\nThe problem is that these moves are not based on any fundamental changes in the stocks.\nNot much has changed for GME stock since it was a $4 stock, and certainly not since it was a $16 stock.\nBrokerage firms are very concerned about the volatility of these moves, as they know they may face losses if customers can't cover positions. They started limiting the positions that can be taken in some of these names.\nThat news came on Jan. 28, which saw GameStop stock price range from over 500 to below 115.\nThis is a trade you wanted to watch out for. While some hedge funds were hurt and some retail traders made fortunes — at least on paper — this still may end badly.\nThe helium holding these stocks up would not last forever.","source":"lsy1610449120050","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>What Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-10-13 09:24 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220>investors</a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\nWhat is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are ...\n\n<a href=\"https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"GME":"游戏驿站","AMC":"AMC院线"},"source_url":"https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1107758297","content_text":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are contributing to these gargantuan moves, but one is surely the classic short squeeze.\nWhile there are some new factors at play in the markets today, the short squeeze has been around as long as shorting stock.\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze\nHere is how the short squeeze works. If traders think a stock's price is going lower, they canshort the stock. They borrow shares and sell them, with the intent of buying them back at lower prices.\nThis is mostly done by institutional investors, like hedge funds, given the risks and the margin required.\nAnd there are big risks. Stocks can theoretically go up infinitely. So a trader who is short can face theoretically infinite losses.\nSome stocks attract very high short interest, which can be viewed as the amount of shares sold short as a percentage of float, or how much stock has been issued that is available for trading.\nThe problem comes if the stock prices starts to rise quickly. Those that are short the stock will likely receive a margin call. They either have to put more money up to secure their position or close their positions.\nIf they choose to — or are forced to — close their position, they are buying the stock to close out their position. This can push the price higher and force other short sellers to do the same. This creates a reinforcing loop of buying and pushing the price higher. This is the short squeeze, as those short the market get \"squeezed\" out.\nShort Squeeze Stocks: GME\nThis is definitely part of what was happening in GameStop(GME) stock. In August of 2020, GME stock was trading for around 4.\nShares steadily climbed higher to close out 2020 just under 20 on the back of some big name investors taking stakes in the company. This attracted the short sellers, notably some big hedge funds. Then, on Jan. 13, the stock jumped to hit a high of almost 40 on huge volume.\nThat was surely the start of the short squeeze. That 40 level held for about a week. On Jan. 22, the stock jumped again, trading above 70 on the biggest volume day up to that point.\nThe next day the stock hit a high of almost 160 with similar action the next day. Then on Jan. 27 the stock doubled again, trading up to 380. The Jan. 28 high was 483.\nWhile short squeezes are nothing new, this action is unprecedented. The action is certainly partly stock buying by the Reddit group wallstreetbets.\nAnd while many are cheering that the little retail traders are beating up the big institutional shorts, it is pretty clear that other institutions are also in on this buying. Stories have popped up about Michael Burry's gains on GME stock and Elon Musk was tweeting about it.\nHedge Fund Losses\nThere are some big losses in this squeeze.\nTwo funds in particular have been hard hit. Citron Research and Melvin Capital have reportedly suffered huge losses.\nMelvin is down 30% in 2021 on the back of a GME stock short position. It turned to Steven Cohen of Point72 Capital and Chicago-based Citadel to bail it out.\nThe short squeeze is usually something inflicted by one hedge fund on another.\nThis is really the first time we have seen such trading instigated by a band of retail traders.\nOptions Trading Is Also A Big Factor\nAnother piece of this story's plot is the fact that much of the trading in GME and other names like AMC Entertainment(AMC) and BlackBerry(BB) is actually taking place in the options market.\nBullish call buying instead of buying the stock is attractive here because of the leverage it provides and the fact that the positions are limited risk.\nCalls are contracts that give the right to buy the underlying stock for a given price (strike price) until the expiration date.\nThe most that can be lost is the premium paid for the calls.\nBuying calls requires much less capital, so bigger positions can be taken by small traders.\nThis actually adds to the short squeeze effect.\nWhen retail traders buy calls, it is market makers that sell them.\nThe market makers don't want the risk of being short calls, so they do something called delta hedging.\nWhat Is Delta Hedging, And Why It Matters In A Short Squeeze\nDelta hedging calls requires the market makers to buy stock. And because of the nature of calls, when the price of the underlying stock goes up, the market makers have to buy more stock to stay hedged.\nWe might call this the call option squeeze.\nThe problem is that these moves are not based on any fundamental changes in the stocks.\nNot much has changed for GME stock since it was a $4 stock, and certainly not since it was a $16 stock.\nBrokerage firms are very concerned about the volatility of these moves, as they know they may face losses if customers can't cover positions. They started limiting the positions that can be taken in some of these names.\nThat news came on Jan. 28, which saw GameStop stock price range from over 500 to below 115.\nThis is a trade you wanted to watch out for. While some hedge funds were hurt and some retail traders made fortunes — at least on paper — this still may end badly.\nThe helium holding these stocks up would not last forever.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"CN"},{"id":822195090,"gmtCreate":1634098730071,"gmtModify":1634098730792,"author":{"id":"3577443068440656","authorId":"3577443068440656","name":"Alykrunch","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/ea2607d2bd4f40d019e3f3122da2d996","vip":1,"crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3577443068440656","authorIdStr":"3577443068440656"},"htmlText":"I think this is a caution for shorting these stocks, but at the same time, for new entries to beware that the increase is not based on the rationaleundamentals of the stock so don’t put everything into one basket","listText":"I think this is a caution for shorting these stocks, but at the same time, for new entries to beware that the increase is not based on the rationaleundamentals of the stock so don’t put everything into one basket","text":"I think this is a caution for shorting these stocks, but at the same time, for new entries to beware that the increase is not based on the rationaleundamentals of the stock so don’t put everything into one basket","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":6,"commentSize":2,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/822195090","repostId":1107758297,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1107758297","pubTimestamp":1634088266,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1107758297?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-10-13 09:24","market":"us","language":"en","title":"What Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1107758297","media":"investors","summary":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make ","content":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are contributing to these gargantuan moves, but one is surely the classic short squeeze.\nWhile there are some new factors at play in the markets today, the short squeeze has been around as long as shorting stock.\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze\nHere is how the short squeeze works. If traders think a stock's price is going lower, they canshort the stock. They borrow shares and sell them, with the intent of buying them back at lower prices.\nThis is mostly done by institutional investors, like hedge funds, given the risks and the margin required.\nAnd there are big risks. Stocks can theoretically go up infinitely. So a&nbsp;trader who is short&nbsp;can face theoretically infinite losses.\nSome stocks attract&nbsp;very high short interest, which can be viewed as the amount of shares sold short as a percentage of float, or how much stock has been issued that is available for trading.\nThe problem comes if the stock prices starts to rise quickly. Those that are short the stock will likely receive a margin call. They either have to put more money up to secure their position or close their positions.\nIf they choose to — or are forced to — close their position, they are buying the stock to close out their position. This can push the price higher and force other short sellers to do the same. This creates a reinforcing loop of buying and pushing the price higher. This is the short squeeze, as those short the market get \"squeezed\" out.\nShort Squeeze Stocks: GME\nThis is definitely part of what was happening in&nbsp;GameStop(GME) stock. In August of 2020, GME stock was trading for around 4.\nShares steadily climbed higher to close out 2020 just under 20 on the back of some big name investors taking stakes in the company. This attracted the short sellers, notably some big hedge funds. Then, on Jan. 13, the stock jumped to hit a high of almost 40 on huge volume.\nThat was surely the start of the short squeeze. That 40 level held for about a week. On Jan. 22, the stock jumped again, trading above 70 on the biggest volume day up to that point.\nThe next day the stock hit a high of almost 160 with similar action the next day. Then on Jan. 27 the stock doubled again, trading up to 380. The Jan. 28 high was 483.\nWhile short squeezes are nothing new, this action is unprecedented. The action is certainly partly stock buying by the Reddit group wallstreetbets.\nAnd while many are cheering that the little retail traders are beating up the big institutional shorts, it is pretty clear that other institutions are also in on this buying. Stories have popped up about Michael Burry's gains on GME stock and Elon Musk was tweeting about it.\nHedge Fund Losses\nThere are some big losses in this squeeze.\nTwo funds in particular have been hard hit. Citron Research and Melvin Capital have reportedly suffered huge losses.\nMelvin is down 30% in 2021 on the back of a GME stock short position. It turned to Steven Cohen of Point72 Capital and Chicago-based Citadel to bail it out.\nThe short squeeze is usually something inflicted by one hedge fund on another.\nThis is really the first time we have seen such trading instigated by a band of retail traders.\nOptions Trading Is Also A Big Factor\nAnother piece of this story's plot is the fact that much of the trading in GME and other names like&nbsp;AMC Entertainment(AMC) and&nbsp;BlackBerry(BB) is actually taking place in the&nbsp;options market.\nBullish call buying instead of buying the stock is attractive here because of the leverage it provides and the fact that the positions are limited risk.\nCalls are contracts that give the right to buy the underlying stock for a given price (strike price) until the expiration date.\nThe most that can be lost is the premium paid for the calls.\nBuying calls requires much less capital, so bigger positions can be taken by small traders.\nThis actually adds to the short squeeze effect.\nWhen retail traders buy calls, it is market makers that sell them.\nThe market makers don't want the risk of being short calls, so they do something called delta hedging.\nWhat Is Delta Hedging, And Why It Matters In A Short Squeeze\nDelta hedging calls requires the market makers to buy stock. And because of the nature of calls, when the price of the underlying stock goes up, the market makers have to buy more stock to stay hedged.\nWe might call this the call option squeeze.\nThe problem is that these moves are not based on any fundamental changes in the stocks.\nNot much has changed for GME stock since it was a $4 stock, and certainly not since it was a $16 stock.\nBrokerage firms are very concerned about the volatility of these moves, as they know they may face losses if customers can't cover positions. They started limiting the positions that can be taken in some of these names.\nThat news came on Jan. 28, which saw GameStop stock price range from over 500 to below 115.\nThis is a trade you wanted to watch out for. While some hedge funds were hurt and some retail traders made fortunes — at least on paper — this still may end badly.\nThe helium holding these stocks up would not last forever.","source":"lsy1610449120050","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>What Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze And What Is Going On In GameStop, AMC\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-10-13 09:24 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220>investors</a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\nWhat is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are ...\n\n<a href=\"https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"GME":"游戏驿站","AMC":"AMC院线"},"source_url":"https://www.investors.com/how-to-invest/investors-corner/short-squeeze/?src=A00220","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1107758297","content_text":"What is it that can put a stock on a meteoric rise? This year, we have seen a number of stocks make truly staggering jumps, doubling in price on consecutive days. There are several factors that are contributing to these gargantuan moves, but one is surely the classic short squeeze.\nWhile there are some new factors at play in the markets today, the short squeeze has been around as long as shorting stock.\nWhat Is A Short Squeeze\nHere is how the short squeeze works. If traders think a stock's price is going lower, they canshort the stock. They borrow shares and sell them, with the intent of buying them back at lower prices.\nThis is mostly done by institutional investors, like hedge funds, given the risks and the margin required.\nAnd there are big risks. Stocks can theoretically go up infinitely. So a trader who is short can face theoretically infinite losses.\nSome stocks attract very high short interest, which can be viewed as the amount of shares sold short as a percentage of float, or how much stock has been issued that is available for trading.\nThe problem comes if the stock prices starts to rise quickly. Those that are short the stock will likely receive a margin call. They either have to put more money up to secure their position or close their positions.\nIf they choose to — or are forced to — close their position, they are buying the stock to close out their position. This can push the price higher and force other short sellers to do the same. This creates a reinforcing loop of buying and pushing the price higher. This is the short squeeze, as those short the market get \"squeezed\" out.\nShort Squeeze Stocks: GME\nThis is definitely part of what was happening in GameStop(GME) stock. In August of 2020, GME stock was trading for around 4.\nShares steadily climbed higher to close out 2020 just under 20 on the back of some big name investors taking stakes in the company. This attracted the short sellers, notably some big hedge funds. Then, on Jan. 13, the stock jumped to hit a high of almost 40 on huge volume.\nThat was surely the start of the short squeeze. That 40 level held for about a week. On Jan. 22, the stock jumped again, trading above 70 on the biggest volume day up to that point.\nThe next day the stock hit a high of almost 160 with similar action the next day. Then on Jan. 27 the stock doubled again, trading up to 380. The Jan. 28 high was 483.\nWhile short squeezes are nothing new, this action is unprecedented. The action is certainly partly stock buying by the Reddit group wallstreetbets.\nAnd while many are cheering that the little retail traders are beating up the big institutional shorts, it is pretty clear that other institutions are also in on this buying. Stories have popped up about Michael Burry's gains on GME stock and Elon Musk was tweeting about it.\nHedge Fund Losses\nThere are some big losses in this squeeze.\nTwo funds in particular have been hard hit. Citron Research and Melvin Capital have reportedly suffered huge losses.\nMelvin is down 30% in 2021 on the back of a GME stock short position. It turned to Steven Cohen of Point72 Capital and Chicago-based Citadel to bail it out.\nThe short squeeze is usually something inflicted by one hedge fund on another.\nThis is really the first time we have seen such trading instigated by a band of retail traders.\nOptions Trading Is Also A Big Factor\nAnother piece of this story's plot is the fact that much of the trading in GME and other names like AMC Entertainment(AMC) and BlackBerry(BB) is actually taking place in the options market.\nBullish call buying instead of buying the stock is attractive here because of the leverage it provides and the fact that the positions are limited risk.\nCalls are contracts that give the right to buy the underlying stock for a given price (strike price) until the expiration date.\nThe most that can be lost is the premium paid for the calls.\nBuying calls requires much less capital, so bigger positions can be taken by small traders.\nThis actually adds to the short squeeze effect.\nWhen retail traders buy calls, it is market makers that sell them.\nThe market makers don't want the risk of being short calls, so they do something called delta hedging.\nWhat Is Delta Hedging, And Why It Matters In A Short Squeeze\nDelta hedging calls requires the market makers to buy stock. And because of the nature of calls, when the price of the underlying stock goes up, the market makers have to buy more stock to stay hedged.\nWe might call this the call option squeeze.\nThe problem is that these moves are not based on any fundamental changes in the stocks.\nNot much has changed for GME stock since it was a $4 stock, and certainly not since it was a $16 stock.\nBrokerage firms are very concerned about the volatility of these moves, as they know they may face losses if customers can't cover positions. They started limiting the positions that can be taken in some of these names.\nThat news came on Jan. 28, which saw GameStop stock price range from over 500 to below 115.\nThis is a trade you wanted to watch out for. While some hedge funds were hurt and some retail traders made fortunes — at least on paper — this still may end badly.\nThe helium holding these stocks up would not last forever.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":6421004,"gmtCreate":1635826907936,"gmtModify":1635826908025,"authorId":3577443068440656,"author":{"id":3577443068440656,"idStr":"3577443068440656","authorId":3577443068440656,"name":"Alykrunch","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/ea2607d2bd4f40d019e3f3122da2d996","vip":1,"crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":822195090,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"The stocks mentioned in the article. To do Your own research and not base on public sentiments that may be pure hype","text":"The stocks mentioned in the article. 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