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A Look at the GameStop Short Squeeze

Anyone interested in finance and stock trade is familiar with the sudden, inexplicable rise of GameStop stock in early 2021, but you may not be intimately familiar with the details of how it all went down. It’s definitely a story worth hearing. 

In early January of 2021, GameStop stock was selling at about 18 dollars a share. The brick and mortar video game company had been struggling for a long time and, for some shareholders, it seemed like a safe bet that this particular stock was primed for pulling off a “short.” This basically means that borrowed stock is sold at the current value, with the expectation that the stock price will soon be dropping. Then the borrower will be able to purchase the same share at a lower price, thus making a profit right under the stockholder’s nose. While this move isn’t illegal, it is certainly morally questionable.

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