Analyzing Game Stop’s (GME) Short Squeeze

Game Stops (GME) stock rose over 90% today during normal marketing hours. However Game Stop’s stock rose to almost $250 in after marketing trading and then settled in at $209.51.

This is not normal.
This is more like a phenomenon.

The real story around Game Stop, shows how many institutional and professional investors were expecting for Game Stop’s Stock to fall and had quite a bit of Shorting the stock.

What is Shorting Selling:
Short selling is a fairly simple concept—an investor borrows a stock, sells the stock, and then buys the stock back to return it to the lender. Short sellers are betting that the stock they sell will drop in price.
Source – Investopedia

While the institutional investors were short selling Game Stop a renegade faction of retail investors were gathering and organizing themselves to buy Game Stock Shares and cause they short sellers some pain and push the stock price higher.

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