CoachThe short interest of a stock is the number of its shares sold short and not yet covered, often quoted as a percentage of the float. Days to cover is short interest divided by the average daily volume.
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Example 16.11 (January 2021)
Short interest in a US video-game retailer reached 122.97% of its float in January 2021. From an intraday low on 8 January to an intraday high of $483 on 28 January the price rose about 2 700%, then fell more than 86% by the end of the first week of February. The regulator’s staff report found that short sellers’ covering coincided with parts of the rise but was a small fraction of total buying, and concluded that positive sentiment, not buying-to-cover, sustained the rise: a squeeze was part of the story and not the whole of it.