From AMC to Bed Bath & Beyond, the market's most-shorted stocks are rallying as Reddit day-traders pile in

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A short squeeze is when short-sellers are forced to buyback the stock to close out their losing positions, boosting demand for the stock in question.

BlackBerry is up as much as 214% year-to-date at Monday's intra-day high, with a mid January spike sparked byShares are up more than 100% over the past week.

AMC Entertainment is up as much as 130% year-to-date at Monday's intra-day high. The stock surged as much as 39% on Monday after the movie theater chain said itwhich will help it avoid bankruptcy and extend its cash runway well into 2021. Bed Bath & Beyond is another heavily shorted stock that jumped as much as 58% on Monday on no apparent news besides a price target increase from Loop Capital. The home furnishing retailer has jumped as much as 169% year-to-date at Monday's intra-day high.

Besides being stocks with high short interest and uncertain fundamentals, all have been mentioned on the WallStreetBets forums by users who were buying shares in recent weeks.

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Hey GraceRandolph have you been following this? And is there any way you can do an explainer?

Wall Street needs more than a foot in it's ass.

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