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To: WhatsUpWithThat who wrote (12614)	5/12/1999 5:00:00 PM
From: WhatsUpWithThat	Read Replies (4) of 62348

OK, I gotta dare to ask newbie questions or I'll never know: can anyone tell me the mechanics of a short squeeze? Shorting means borrowing the shares and selling them at $X, hoping to re-buy to replace them at $X-n, where n hopefully is substantial. Why a squeeze, if the stock is otherwise stable? Why, for example, with BII sliding and sliding over the week, with nothing to push it up, would nothing apparently trigger shorts covering? Or does a squeeze only happen when there is some other trigger to start an uptick and shorts covering only accentuates the move, sort of like stop losses kicking in accentuates a drop on other news? Many thanks, WUWT

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