A squeeze needs specific ingredients: high short interest relative to float, expensive borrow, low available lending inventory, and a catalyst. All four are observable. Markets asking whether a stock doubles or hits a big round number in a short window are essentially squeeze markets, and they get priced on chatter. You screen the mechanical conditions and only take the side when the plumbing supports it, which is far less often than social media suggests.
Markets on Polymarket where short-interest & squeeze setup detection is the natural play:
