Short Selling Scrutiny Intensifies: Market Maker Exploits Revealed

Published in Stocks and Investing on Thursday, July 10th 2025 at 13:30 GMT by 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 Presidio Property Trust, Inc. (SQFT), 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 Presidio Property Trust, Inc. at $5.29, after crossing above the $5.085 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.

Date	Short Volume	Total Volume	Percentage	Squeeze Trigger	$ Value
2025-07-09	632	1,010	62.57	4.87	3,078
2025-07-08	120	1,412	8.5	4.8	576
2025-07-07	244	1,696	14.39	4.8	1,171
2025-07-03	858	5,315	16.14	4.69	4,024
2025-07-02	3,722	8,962	41.53	4.91	18,275
2025-07-01	8,521	42,901	19.86	5.26	44,820
2025-06-27	188	4,232	4.44	4.72	887
2025-06-26	8,506	14,256	59.67	4.56	38,787
2025-06-25	27	369	7.32	4.38	118
2025-06-24	9	401	2.24	4.41	40
2025-06-23	2,682	7,538	35.58	4.38	11,747
2025-06-20	2,824	5,944	47.51	4.37	12,341
2025-06-18	716	2,337	30.64	4.28	3,064
2025-06-17	859	2,257	38.06	4.43	3,805
2025-06-16	655	2,681	24.43	4.47	2,928
2025-06-13	2,029	4,247	47.77	4.56	9,252
2025-06-12	1,261	4,493	28.07	4.56	5,750
2025-06-11	2,787	6,608	42.18	4.5	12,542
2025-06-10	909	5,275	17.23	4.7	4,272
2025-06-09	5,939	12,079	49.17	4.77	28,329
2025-06-06	216	1,155	18.7	5.2	1,123
2025-06-05	2,607	9,424	27.66	5.21	13,582
2025-06-04	90	5,371	1.68	5.36	482
2025-06-03	1,256	4,737	26.51	5.75	7,222
2025-06-02	25	783	3.19	5.89	147
2025-05-30	1,408	5,507	25.57	5.86	8,251
2025-05-27	679	1,690	40.18	6.03	4,094
2025-05-22	142	2,381	5.96	5.87	834
2025-05-21	818	4,893	16.72	5.84	4,777
2025-05-20	994	4,403	22.58	6.17	6,133
2025-05-19	2,331	8,115	28.72	6.1	14,219
2025-05-16	12,029	28,799	41.77	0.61	7,338
2025-05-15	8,853	52,339	16.91	0.62	5,489
2025-05-14	401	15,707	2.55	0.62	249
2025-05-13	335	36,878	0.91	0.62	208
2025-05-12	18,997	62,632	30.33	0.63	11,968
2025-05-09	2,881	8,120	35.48	0.65	1,873

Total	50,956,382	127,596,648	39.94	5.09	259,133,631

* Totals include all data records back to 2020-10-08 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.