RE:RE:RE:SHORT SQUEEZE COMING TO AIRLINES SOON...IMOIt does reduce the supply of shares available for short trades, and also results in an increase in the costs for borrowing those shares. That's what you want to do, make the shorts pay dearly. At any rate, retail shorts are the dumbest of the lot. In AC most of the total shorts until January 15 was from convertible note holders (from last May) who were hedging. Smart shorts are long gone from AC. There are lots of other lucrative places to play without taking on such risks. AstraZeneca, Memo of Understanding with Government, Transat, just waiting to kill off the retail shorts for good. Tomorrow. Week After. Any time.