RE:Short squeezeNovyj wrote: Yes everyday sellers place sell orders which they remove as soon as possible if someone else places a sell order. It is possible to play the same game by placing false buy orders in large volume even if it means withdrawing it before it is executed.
Sure, but little folk like us have to have sufficient cash in the account to cover the order, and even if you do have enough cash in the account, you better be watching like a hawk otherwise you'll wind up buying something you didn't really want or cant afford. Most of us have full-time jobs and cant be staring at a real-time market data terminal, even if we have access to one, whcih most people dont.
Institutional shorts have all of the tools, because it's their full-time job. They have credit established, they hedge their bets.. for them it's a completely different story. You can't fight them playing the same game, instead you need to ride on their cost-tails. At least that's my opinion.