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Short squeeze is starting in shares of VRCA at $6.436, after crossing above the $4.521 Trigger Price

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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 Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc. (VRCA), 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 Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc. at $6.436, after crossing above the $4.521 Trigger Price. This could signal a buying opportunity, given the right market conditions.

You can find the full report at [ https://www.woprai.com/ ]

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

DateShort VolumeTotal VolumePercentageSqueeze Trigger$ Value
2025-07-24131,278718,73618.270.71593,864
2025-07-23140,083388,18936.090.70999,319
2025-07-22102,745552,26718.60.7375,004
2025-07-2161,450335,13518.340.77247,439
2025-07-1895,875340,37128.170.84280,727
2025-07-1775,536336,50122.450.85564,583
2025-07-1680,159292,41727.410.81665,442
2025-07-1578,408194,55440.30.80162,805
2025-07-14129,054480,24126.870.76999,243
2025-07-11163,148445,07836.660.806131,497
2025-07-10141,534623,01622.720.879124,408
2025-07-09325,3171,351,68624.070.822267,411
2025-07-08164,650521,83131.550.836137,647
2025-07-07180,590675,14926.750.772139,415
2025-07-0360,457483,76712.50.6841,111
2025-07-02211,8781,030,29720.560.642136,026
2025-07-01997,8733,715,51026.860.609607,705
2025-06-3078,900168,42946.840.53342,054
2025-06-27268,6292,969,1589.050.525141,030
2025-06-2638,556121,95231.620.58922,709
2025-06-25167,355258,40364.770.626104,764
2025-06-2444,814136,33832.870.59826,799
2025-06-2357,571135,95742.350.5933,967
2025-06-20107,251366,28529.280.59463,707
2025-06-18121,704262,38146.380.59772,657
2025-06-17106,358199,46053.320.65669,771
2025-06-1667,941203,59133.370.63843,346
2025-06-1356,896128,78644.180.6436,413
2025-06-12247,550640,17538.670.654161,898
2025-06-11253,102529,74547.780.616155,911
2025-06-1068,482146,48346.750.61241,911
2025-06-0963,95894,40267.750.60538,695
2025-06-0684,358197,09742.80.61251,627
2025-06-05100,003265,03637.730.60560,502
2025-06-04135,983246,36255.20.56676,966
2025-06-03106,188229,72846.220.53256,492
2025-06-02103,278262,29139.380.52654,324
 
Total179,346,279391,390,45145.824.52810,251,029
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-07-27 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.