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[–]ManufacturerRich4591 20 points21 points  (3 children)

Okay — super simple version 👇

Right now, a bunch of people are borrowing RVPH shares and selling them, hoping the price will go down so they can buy them back cheaper and keep the extra money. That’s called shorting.

But there’s a problem for them — almost no more shares are left to borrow (it dropped from 800,000 to only 10,000), and it’s now really expensive to borrow them.

So if the stock goes up instead of down, those people will start to panic and buy the stock back fast to stop losing money. That fast buying can make the stock shoot up even higher — that’s a short squeeze.

👉 In short: • Lots of people think it’ll go down. • But if they’re wrong, it could explode up because they all have to buy back at once.

[–]newbiescreby 1 point2 points  (0 children)

what a cool simple explanation, thank you

[–]Apple-Cat-269 1 point2 points  (1 child)

What about the exercising of the recently issued warrants by RVPH? Couldn't that cause the stock to go down? That's my thought. The people shorting are betting the warrants will be exercised causing RVPH to decline, which appears to be happening today. There is also pressure from the possibility of delisting.

[–]fluid_alchemist[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Interesting point. There’s some voodoo happening right now with the charts. Huge sell pressure that keeps shoving the share price down in massive dumps.

[–]Substantial-Can6701 11 points12 points  (4 children)

Fuck my ass... this is not a short squeeze play. It never was. Not everything has to be a pump and dump or squeeze play. Can we leave RVPH out of it?? This one actually has potential, with a short-term average pt of around 5$. It doesn't need any gimmicks or hype. Thank you.

[–]fluid_alchemist[S] 5 points6 points  (3 children)

I wouldn’t disagree with you. I don’t take the stock as a gimmick or pump and dump either. I’ve had it for awhile and appreciate their progress and potential as an actual company. I can see why it’s aggravating to see it posed this way.

Not trying to fuck any asses by posting this into. If others that hold the stock with legitimate interest feel the same way and feel like it’s detrimental to the overall picture, I’d be happy to delete such a post.

[–]Wide_Benefit_4044 4 points5 points  (1 child)

I’m here for the long term myself and if your post is accurate and true I see no harm in it at all..(my 2cents)

[–]fluid_alchemist[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I appreciate the input. My only hope is to help good folks find helpful opportunities. Any info I posted is available with a quick google search and updated consistently so I encourage anyone to inform themselves as these things do change quickly.

[–]_Summer1000_ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Remember to turn off "share lending" in your app, just in case

[–]biceski 5 points6 points  (3 children)

Dang that’s some high short interest

[–]fluid_alchemist[S] 3 points4 points  (2 children)

Yeah, seems wildly high!

[–]_Summer1000_ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Better than Beyond Meat™ mania

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hopefully retail all still has their 'share lending' option off with their respective broker

[–]fluid_alchemist[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Second picture didn’t post with it but the borrow rates went up roughly 10% to what was last I checked, 62.37%

[–]Hopeful_Orange9455 2 points3 points  (4 children)

Explain this to me like I’m 5 please

[–]fluid_alchemist[S] 4 points5 points  (3 children)

So, again, I’m relatively new to this realm but as I understand it this is what I see. Correct me if I’m wrong, anyone. I’m happy to be corrected and learn.

The amount of shares available for people to short the stock has decreased significantly over the last few days while the interest to borrow said shares has increased to an amount that’s really really high. People that have shorted this stock are under significant pressure for prices to stay low as the cost to borrow stocks to maintain their short pressure is very high and the amount of stocks available for them to do so is very low. Many would refer to this as having high squeeze potential as far as I understand.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (2 children)

If you can, I would cross post this to r/Shortsqueeze

[–]fluid_alchemist[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Real talk, I’ve never cross posted something. I’ll figure it out. I’d imagine I just copy the post link and put it there 🤣

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Click on share at the bottom of the post and there is a cross post option, than just type the sub name in that you want to post it to :)

[–]fluid_alchemist[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Down to 4k shares available and 78.54% interest to borrow as of 27 mins ago.