What Is a Short Squeeze, and How Can it Affect Your Investments?

Investors who want to take advantage of those downward movements in stock prices can consider short-selling a stock. In short-selling, your brokerage firm will sell shares of the stock in question and credit your account with the proceeds. At some point in the future you'll need to purchase an equal number of shares of the stock in order to close the position. If the stock price moves lower, you make money. If the opposite occurs and the stock price rises, you lose money.

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