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GameStop Stock Rollercoaster! + FB, TSLA, AAPL Earnings

The Young Investors Podcast

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What's Happening if the Stock Price Goes Up After You Lender and Sell the Shares?

Short selling is this idea of borrowing someone else's shares, and then waiting for the stock price to fall. So if you sell it high and then you buy it low, then you profit the difference. But when people are forced to do that, to close a short position, you have to buy back stock. And so buying stock adds to the buying pressure. Eventually it can go up so much that you are essentially forced to cover your short o. Ah, but there's another thing that i didn't i had to research this because i er, i didn't know how this worked. People were saying, this is called a gammer squeeze as well. It's really quite baz...

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