RE: RE: RE: RE: Short Squeeze...dangerous game I can't see seasoned traders shorting GFS when it's on a uptrend. On Frinday 5 minutes before the close 30,000 shares where sold, my guess it was a amateur short seller anticipating a turn around or a misread on the technicals, support was broken to the down side due to this close sale.
My guess would be some traders at an institution saw this and squeezed him, momentum traders got in around 2.30; and/or stop losses where taken out driving the price higher. At 2.40+ people started taken profit preventing more upside; then maybe shorts came in after the squeeze. This is when you want to initiate your move; after the squeeze, usually 20% moves in 1 hour don't last. Seeing the way this played out, has stock operator all over it.
I know i was trying to find shares to borrow, but couldn't.
I am long GFS, but you have to be able to profit from both the up side and down side if you expect to make a living at trading.
my guess 30,000 -50,000 shares, i don't think you would want to go more because it would take you a few days to cover without going against yourself driving the price up. and with the stock in a uptrend, its not a high probable trade in your favor; unless your skilled, which these guys who shorted after the squeeze probably are.
and you thought stocks only move on fundamentals, if you knew what really happened behind the scene you would put your money in jar and burry it.
I see a .20-0.40 cent profit here; i have made $60,000.00 dollar trades just to make 0.2 cents (of course you go for more but take what you get), sounds small, but for a few hours work, not bad. 0.20 on 30,000 shares is $6000
If you want to learn more about stocks from a operator point of view i suggest buying "Reminiscences of a Stock Operator", by Edwin Lefevre, its about a trader Jesse Livermore, my hero, he started trading late 1800's into 1900's, if you want to open your eyes to the world of stocks, this is a good start.
When you place a post saying "What Happened???? puzzling day", maybe stocks are not your forte, better off buying GIC's, protect your money