Shorting the Shorts: 3 Stocks Primed for an Epic Squeeze

Danish researchers published a report on the arXiv.org open-access archive for scholarly articles in February about the Jan. 2021 short squeeze of video game retailer GameStop (NYSE:GME). The researchers found that the subreddit community WallStreetBets ‘s(WSB) desire to find and invest in stocks primed for short squeeze had a role in GME’s short squeeze from more than three years ago. “We estimated that the size of the total position of WSB users amounted to at least 1% of GME market capitalization, demons ...