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Short squeeze is starting in shares of AGEM at $29.038, after crossing above the $29.008 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-04-24 15:00:02 - WOPRAI
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In the past 20 years (since 2005 with the introduction of RegSho), short selling has come under scrutiny as millions of retail investors have discovered what we have been highlighting since early 2005. Market makers abuse the “market maker’s exemption” and short excessive amounts of shares in your stock without locating, borrowing, paying the rebate or the interest rate to borrow. They are required to cover on the same trading day, and our data proves they do not.

The chart below shows “Daily Short Volume” in abrdn Emerging Markets Dividend Active ETF (AGEM), and includes both EXEMPT (market makers) and NON-EXEMPT (everyone else) short sales. We consolidate the tape of all 14 US stock exchanges and purchase the “sell short” trade identifier data directly from the exchanges on a daily basis. This complete view of the trading in your stock shows a vastly different picture than “Total Short Interest”, which only includes non-exempt short sales that have not been covered by the twice per month reporting date. Unfortunately, this misses the majority of the short selling.

This indicates that a Short Squeeze may be starting in shares of abrdn Emerging Markets Dividend Active ETF at $29.038, after crossing above the $29.008 Trigger Price. This could signal a buying opportunity, given the right market conditions.

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Please find the applicable data below, drawn from all major market providers.

DateShort VolumeTotal VolumePercentageSqueeze Trigger$ Value
2025-04-234941,44134.2828.7414,198
2025-04-2216792118.1328.394,741
2025-04-212306,8983.3326.696,139
2025-04-1728197928.727.947,851
2025-04-161671,66110.0527.784,639
2025-04-146202,07829.8427.9217,310
2025-04-1111,9270.0527.5628
2025-04-083567,2184.9326.19,292
2025-04-0753573972.425.7113,755
2025-04-0447584056.5526.9512,801
2025-04-032181,28117.0227.966,095
2025-04-0253021.6629.29146
2025-03-3119899219.9628.865,714
2025-03-285,66310,67053.0729.37166,322
2025-03-279013,32127.1329.6826,742
2025-03-251,0212,24345.5229.8130,436
2025-03-211,7195,21532.9629.6250,917
2025-03-194222,56616.4530.0712,690
2025-03-186801,47546.129.8920,325
2025-03-1422972131.7629.486,751
2025-03-13569625.8229.121,631
2025-03-126642,12931.1929.2819,442
2025-03-1014639536.9628.924,222
 
Total15,24856,97426.7629442,187
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2025-03-10 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.