Flagged $SAND at $0.05814, shorts eating 0.212%/8h to stay in a position already losing. Two days later it's $0.07358, net +26.6%, and most of those shorts are still bleeding funding on the way down.

That's the whole mechanic: crowded shorts don't cause the move, they just have to keep paying while it happens. The squeeze was visible before the candle, not after it.

NFA.