ICNB - Borrow Shares to Short To "Short" a stock, you "Borrow" shares, from a Broker and then you Sell them, at the market price. Your hope, is to buy back the shares at a lower price in the future, thereby "covering" the position by giving back the broker his shares. ICNB - Short Information http://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/ICNB/short-sales http://shortsqueeze.com/?symbol=icnb&submit=Short+Quote%99 http://otcshortreport.com/index.php?index=icnb&action=view#.Vm_UrOQo7cs https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?key=icnb&cntry=usa&tag=United+States&ib_entity=llc&ln=&asset=&f=4587&conf=am&amref=1 How it works To Short a Stock - You need to be able to afford it. Shorting a stock is very expensive. To Short a stock, you "borrow" shares, from a broker and sell them at the market price. Your hope is to buy back the shares at a lower price in the future, thereby "covering" the position by giving back the broker his shares. _______________________________________________________________ One Share will cost you $2.00 If you wanted to Short 10,000 Shares, you would need $20,000 to do it - So, if you wanted to Short 100,000 Shares, you would need $200,000 to do it - Most "Shorting" is carried out by hedge funds and prime brokers, with help from their friends at the DTC and major clearinghouses. _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ How a "Short Squeeze" happens ! http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=124224658 Current Short Interest: 10,000 shares / $20,000 If the stock Climbed, from the current 0.0002 to 0.0012 you would need to come up with $120,000 _____________________________________________________________ For all intents and purposes, let's say that ICNB , currently at 0.0002, climbs to 0.0012 Let's say you Sell ICNB stock Short at 0.0012 But, instead of the price going down, it goes up to 0.003 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 ICNB 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://www.stockscores.com/chart.asp?TickerSymbol=ICNB&TimeRange=365&Interval=d&Volume=1&ChartType=OHLC&Stockscores=1&ChartWidth=830&ChartHeight=500&LogScale=None&Band=None&avgType1=SMA&movAvg1=8&avgType2=SMA&movAvg2=34&Indicator1=RSI&Indicator2=PPO&Indicator3=AccDist&Indicator4=MFI&endDate=&CompareWith=&entryPrice=&stopLossPrice=