Kodak Stock’s Rally Destroys Short Sellers. They’re Down $50 Million. Bearish short sellers—in Wall Street parlance—got their faces ripped off by Eastman Kodak stock over the past two days. It sounds brutal, but it’s common Street-jargon. It also appears to be a fair description for what just happened to the bears. The short squeeze has been epic. Tuesday, Kodak (ticker: KODK) received a loan from the U.S. government to develop generic pharmaceutical drug ingredients. That kick started the rally. The stock rose 203% on Tuesday and another 308% on Wednesday. https://www.barrons.com/articles/3-oil-stocks-with-healthy-looking-dividends-51596016807
Ted Suhl, a manager at Southeastern Asset Management, the largest shareholder of KODK with 55.3% ownership of stock (convertible bonds and pfd) had his bribery prison sentence commuted by Trump last year. This week Kodak stock up 2,189% after Trump backs pivot into drug industry
If you do, I'd very nimble. Below is a daily of Riot Blockchain back in Sept. 2017. ($RIOT) I'd look at those candles real well. I'm not saying its going to play out exactly like that, but it might come close. It won't be a straight drop that's for sure. For reference the flatlines on each side are (about) $4. The top is about $46. I have the Y axis set to linear scale for this one so you can see the action from the perspective of how it happens day to day.