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Technology Stocks : TLAB info? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Chuzzlewit who wrote (2724)	7/17/1998 2:13:00 AM
From: The ChrisMeister	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7342

"A short squeeze can also result from a sharp runup in price when people run out of margin and are forced to cover." Not to split hairs, because that's kind of become the colloquial usage lately of the term, but you're describing what I think of as just a good old-fashioned margin call. What I consider a real short squeeze goes back to the days before much regulation, when the number of shares in "street name" available for shorting was much lower and a squeeze could be orchestrated by knowledgeable insiders in the industry spotting the opportunity and getting in cahoots to simultaneously call back in all the loaned out shares. Same difference though as far as we're concerned. Anyway, where at the NASDAQ site does it talk about short reporting? I was pretty sure those figures were for month's end, since they don't seem to get posted until about the 10th of each (following) month. The TLAB trend was definitely up the last couple of months. ChrisMeister PS - A quick check and an edit here shows you're right. It is mid-month, as you had it: nasd.com . Scratch the earlier Q.