Short Squeeze

A short squeeze occurs when a stock or other asset jumps sharply higher, forcing traders who had bet that its price would fall, to buy it in order to forestall even greater losses. Their scramble to buy only adds to the upward pressure on the stock's price.

Reddit has been able to short squeezes big hedge funds with meme stocks

Short Squeeze by Mrstonks January 28, 2021

Short Squeeze

A short squeeze occurs when a stock or other asset jumps sharply higher, forcing traders who had bet that its price would fall, to buy it in order to forestall even greater losses. Their scramble to buy only adds to the upward pressure on the stock's price

Reddit has been able to short squeeze meme stocks such as Gamestop which made big hedge funds lose billions

Short Squeeze by Mrstonks January 28, 2021

shart squeeze 

A stock market short squeeze of epic proportions that makes career short sellers shit their pants.

Edgar: Hey Darvid! How is the stock trading going?
Darvid: Not to good man! I opened a short position in GameStop about a week ago because I thought they were going to go bankrupt soon. I turned on my computer a few days later to check my portfolio and I immediately shit my pants because that position had lost like 2000%! Man that was a real shart squeeze!

shart squeeze by Johnswiecki January 30, 2021

squeeze the shorts 

(FINANCE) hilarious term used for over a century in the trading of stocks, commodities, etc. A way in which someone who controls much of the outstanding shares of stock can make a lot of money while ruining those who are betting against the stock.

A "short" is traditionally someone with expertise in shorting a stock, i.e., managing to borrow shares and sell them in anticipation of a decline in value. Obviously, if there are many people shorting a particular stock at any given time, and if they are wrong about the future, then a steep rise in value if the share price will not only cause them to lose money, it will force panic purchases of stock as the traders attempt to cover their shorts. If the instigator of the squeeze is successful, he will have a corner, and drive the price of the stock up to absurd levels.

An unsuccessful squeeze of shorts in a copper trust triggered the Crisis of 1907. That, in turn, triggered the Aldrich–Vreeland Act (May 1908).

The brokers, after awhile, commenced to borrow large amounts of the stock. This convinced the insiders that there was a big short interest somewhere, and they got together in order to squeeze the shorts... They never awakened to the fact that the {president of the company} had sold out on them... {and were totally ruined}

Henry Clews, Victor Niederhoffer, *Fifty Years in Wall Street*, p.149

squeeze the shorts by Abu Yahya April 5, 2010