Essex Property Trust Faces Potential Short Squeeze: Data Reveals Unusual Trading

Published in Stocks and Investing on Monday, August 4th 2025 at 12:15 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 Essex Property Trust, Inc. (ESS), 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 Essex Property Trust, Inc. at $257.705, after crossing above the $257.605 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
2025-08-01	420,836	943,232	44.62	256.87	108,100,143
2025-07-31	530,430	1,476,945	35.91	261.28	138,590,750
2025-07-30	1,764,805	2,674,973	65.97	272.76	481,368,212
2025-07-29	391,609	734,692	53.3	288.82	113,104,511
2025-07-28	191,843	486,304	39.45	284.74	54,625,376
2025-07-25	110,900	387,623	28.61	286.77	31,802,793
2025-07-24	147,534	327,845	45	287.95	42,482,415
2025-07-23	222,875	443,248	50.28	292.28	65,141,905
2025-07-22	199,995	414,690	48.23	290.84	58,166,546
2025-07-21	197,558	374,785	52.71	286.13	56,527,271
2025-07-18	166,519	415,949	40.03	287.47	47,869,217
2025-07-17	151,431	335,016	45.2	287.28	43,503,098
2025-07-16	194,218	357,198	54.37	284.93	55,338,535
2025-07-15	177,958	484,839	36.7	280.64	49,942,133
2025-07-14	180,783	485,483	37.24	285.71	51,651,511
2025-07-11	225,864	599,236	37.69	285.73	64,536,121
2025-07-10	157,441	374,531	42.04	286.98	45,182,418
2025-07-09	213,151	592,303	35.99	285.31	60,814,112
2025-07-08	236,970	550,089	43.08	285.64	67,688,111
2025-07-07	165,148	383,336	43.08	283.73	46,857,442
2025-07-03	98,191	194,450	50.5	284.15	27,900,973
2025-07-02	239,087	522,041	45.8	282.24	67,479,915
2025-07-01	379,806	677,224	56.08	283.69	107,747,164
2025-06-30	337,171	760,657	44.33	282.48	95,244,064
2025-06-27	332,850	724,843	45.92	286.08	95,221,728
2025-06-26	329,619	819,126	40.24	285.79	94,201,814
2025-06-25	412,217	666,163	61.88	282.73	116,546,112
2025-06-24	244,590	457,324	53.48	286.31	70,028,563
2025-06-23	164,596	361,523	45.53	285.27	46,954,301
2025-06-20	298,648	857,694	34.82	284.5	84,965,356
2025-06-18	148,050	428,308	34.57	284.22	42,078,771
2025-06-17	201,599	404,973	49.78	283.64	57,181,540
2025-06-16	163,261	325,381	50.18	285.27	46,573,465
2025-06-13	282,234	624,395	45.2	284.33	80,247,593
2025-06-12	433,666	574,903	75.43	289.01	125,333,811
2025-06-11	439,047	729,585	60.18	286.77	125,905,508
2025-06-10	432,676	687,602	62.93	287.15	124,242,913

Total	179,577,658	604,410,385	29.71	257.69	46,275,296,496

* Totals include all data records back to 2020-08-05 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.

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Essex Property Trust Faces Potential Short Squeeze: Data Reveals Unusual Trading