HJOE Short Squeeze - How it worked HJOE - Shortable Stocks for United States Availability: 1,400,000 Available to Short https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?key=hjoe&cntry=usa&tag=United+States&ib_entity=llc&ln=&asset=&f=4587&conf=am&amref=1 A short sale reverses the normal buy first/sell second sequence as a way to profit from an anticipated future fall in price. An investor borrows shares of HJOE from a broker and sells them at the market price. The investor hopes to buy back the shares at a lower price in the future, thereby "covering" the position by giving back the broker his shares. Instead of the traditional "buy low/sell high", an investor seeks to "sell high/buy low". A short squeeze occurs when the stock's price doesn't decline as anticipated. For example, let's say you sell short HJOE stock at 0.0003 But, instead of the price going down, it goes up to 0.001 and appears to be going higher. Now you're in trouble . You need to cover your position and limit your losses. You decide to buy HJOE shares as soon as possible -- you and everybody else who shorted the stock. This generates tremendous buying pressure on the stock, and the short sellers rushing to cover their positions only escalate the price increase. Short squeezes occur more often in small-cap stocks with small floats, but they can occur with any stock. http://www.investinganswers.com/financial-dictionary/real-estate/short-squeeze-2045 http://images.investorshub.advfn.com/images/uploads/2012/11/21/a[cztdirtyharry2gy7.png HJOE Would you have bought this stock ? http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=122152826 HJOE Alerted at 0.0002 - Climbs to 0.0062 and 0.0093 http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=122152653 http://images.investorshub.advfn.com/images/uploads/2015/8/25/nyrmnHJOE_Chart_15.png