Finding Potential Short Squeezes for Big Profits  Marc
Lichtenfeld  Most of you buy stocks. You hang on to them for
anywhere from a few minutes to a few decades. You hope they’ll
go up and then you sell for a profit. Buy low, sell high… that’s
what we’ve been taught.  But there are other investors who do
the opposite – they sell high and buy low. Sounds similar, but
it’s a very different strategy. It’s known as shorting stock. A
short seller sells the stock first and buys it back later. If
the stock is bought back at a lower price, the investor makes
money.  Here’s how it works…  Let’s say an investor shorts 100
shares of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) at $18.  If he buys Facebook
back at $12, he’ll make $600, because he bought it at $12 and
sold it at $18, even though he did it in the reverse order.
However, if Facebook rallies to $24, he’ll lose $600. He’ll have
bought the stock at $24, but sold it at $18.  Remember, though,
the sale took place first.  In order to sell a stock that an
investor doesn’t have, he has