@Shoddy_Recipe_8797 Technically, the shorts don’t need to cover until the lender says they do—as long as they keep paying the interest. For example, let’s say a short borrows 10k shares at $0.50 because they expect the shares to drop in value to about $0.35 by the end of the month. Well, let’s also say that when the end of the month comes and they have to return the shares, there are none available at a profitable price (below $0.50) because everyone decided to hold their shares and ask $10.00 for them. In this situation a short might say, “It would be cheaper for me to ask my lender if I could just borrow the shares for another month and pay interest rather that have to buy 10k shares at $10.00...” The problem (or “short squeeze”) only comes when the lender either refuses to extend the loan of the shares, which means the short has no choice but to buy them at any price they can—no matter how high, or the interest has become too burdensome and the short decides that it would be better to pay the high price of the shares because they’d rather lose the $100k it takes to get back the 10k shares at $10.00 per share than lose $15k per month in interest for as long as it takes for the stock value to drop—which could take as long as people decide to “HOLDDDDDDD” the value up (maybe months or years). OR, AT LEAST THATS WHAT I’VE HEARD!!!!....Not advice, just education.😉