A children's book explanation of what's happening:
1. If you are "smart money" you are allowed to take your $1 and leverage it up to $15+
2. You can now buy $15 of stock AND if you promise to short companies, you can short $15 of stock as well
5. You also publish your longs on a quarterly lag via an SEC rule. You don't have to tell anyone about your shorts.
7. You realize that publicizing your shorts is also a good idea so instead of only selling stocks, you also BUY options (puts) which has to be reported.
9. But then an outsider notices that the math is way off!
11. So he grabs his chicken fingers and champagne and buys, starts a massive short squeeze.
12. Other's see what's happening and they jump in.

So the outsider won?
