Seriously... that is the buried lede here: VW's widely shorted stock goes from $200 to $1000 over 2 days after the financial crash was already under way.

A terrible time to be part of the bear herd.

Probably the largest ever in nominal dollars. If you adjust for inflation there might be some historical stuff that would beat it I guess?

I note a couple of down votes but the market cap increased by approx $300bn in a couple of days to $370bn. Anyone know any short squeezes that beat that?

I know a guy who was personally bankrupted by this trade. Got bought in at the top. It was sad.