By Lizzy Gurdus
GameStop is seemingly unstoppable, at least temporarily.
Shares of the video game retailer and several other Reddit-anointed stocks soared higher in early Thursday trading as a community of young individual investors prolonged their war with professional money managers.
The action centers on short selling, a strategy in which investors borrow shares of a stock at a certain price expecting the market value to fall below that level when it’s time to pay for the borrowed shares. GameStop, AMC and Bed Bath & Beyond are among the most heavily shorted stocks in the marke