You don’t want a short squeeze! Every tenth post on X is someone praying for a short squeeze in one of their stocks. I get the appeal: the violent upside, the "OH! Shorts are trapped" narrative, the feeling that the market is about to be forced to pay you. But for most people who actually own the stock, a short squeeze is a bad outcome. There's an old Swedish joke about a Norwegian driving on the wrong side of the road. He hears a radio report about "an idiot driving the wrong way" and shouts, "One idiot? There are hundreds of them!" That’s how I feel reading these posts. Am I the only one on X who hate short squeezes? A short squeeze is just a temporary technical event, not a fundamental one. The stock rises because shorts are forced to buy, not because the business got better. Once that forced buying ends, the price often collapses. You get: 1⚠️: Violent reversals! The same scarcity that drives the squeeze disappears the moment shorts cover. Many of the 2021 meme squeezes gave back most or all of their gains. 2⚠️: Absolutely terrible risk/reward for holders! Volatility spikes. Liquidity dries up. People who bought late or held through it often end up underwater after the unwind. Exiting cleanly is hard. 3⚠️: The wrong shareholders! Your company get's flooded with people who don't know nothing about investing. Momentum traders and short-term speculators enter the arena and dominate. Long-term owners get diluted by noise, and management can get distracted by the circus. 4⚠️: Zero lasting value. A squeeze doesn't improve earnings, cash flow, or the competitive position. If the business is weak, the elevated price eventually gets corrected, often painfully. A steady climb is better ALWAYS. A slow, durable uptrend is usually driven by actual business progress: rising revenue, expanding margins, growing free cash flow, and sensible capital allocation. That kind of move compounds more reliably because deep drawdowns are rarer. It attracts capital that stays invested, gives management room to execute, and lets shareholders plan (taxes, rebalancing, exits) without riding a rollercoaster. The tortoise still beats the hare over any meaningful time horizon. A short squeeze can make sophisticated traders rich if they time both sides perfectly. For everyone else, it's mostly a high-risk lottery ticket that doesn't create real wealth. Steady compounding of intrinsic value has always been the more reliable path. Nah, sorry, but short squeeze is stupid and you shouldn't beg for it or hope for it. MSN over and out.