Short Selling Scrutiny Intensifies Amid Retail Investor Awareness

Published in Stocks and Investing on Monday, August 4th 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 SmartStop Self Storage REIT, Inc. (SMA), 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 SmartStop Self Storage REIT, Inc. at $35.34, after crossing above the $35.139 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	331,155	765,556	43.26	34.31	11,361,928
2025-07-31	304,478	949,835	32.06	34.36	10,461,864
2025-07-30	249,933	357,179	69.97	35.79	8,945,102
2025-07-29	279,560	741,480	37.7	36.19	10,117,276
2025-07-28	302,767	513,986	58.91	36.15	10,945,027
2025-07-25	132,103	307,330	42.98	36.21	4,783,450
2025-07-24	156,778	293,543	53.41	36.73	5,758,456
2025-07-23	186,965	404,684	46.2	37.11	6,938,271
2025-07-22	222,997	535,906	41.61	37.03	8,257,579
2025-07-21	162,882	360,905	45.13	36.31	5,914,245
2025-07-18	132,886	316,943	41.93	35.8	4,757,319
2025-07-17	161,786	342,178	47.28	35.89	5,806,500
2025-07-16	397,257	638,253	62.24	36.1	14,340,978
2025-07-15	227,302	596,369	38.11	35.97	8,176,053
2025-07-14	233,962	473,395	49.42	36.31	8,495,160
2025-07-11	167,965	681,344	24.65	35.73	6,001,389
2025-07-10	216,926	1,094,451	19.82	35.96	7,800,659
2025-07-09	168,071	573,675	29.3	36.19	6,082,489
2025-07-08	163,335	318,746	51.24	36.55	5,969,894
2025-07-07	153,837	277,450	55.45	36.65	5,638,126
2025-07-03	112,394	415,706	27.04	37.17	4,177,685
2025-07-02	295,154	785,726	37.56	37.09	10,947,262
2025-07-01	256,757	451,921	56.81	36.96	9,489,739
2025-06-30	953,654	1,959,200	48.68	35.94	34,274,325
2025-06-27	2,754,823	10,777,243	25.56	36.06	99,338,917
2025-06-26	407,843	663,930	61.43	36.25	14,784,309
2025-06-25	336,352	601,320	55.94	36.92	12,418,116
2025-06-24	353,450	678,212	52.11	37.18	13,141,271
2025-06-23	341,394	796,658	42.85	36.94	12,611,094
2025-06-20	1,324,154	4,232,046	31.29	36.46	48,278,655
2025-06-18	205,032	925,479	22.15	36.31	7,444,712
2025-06-17	187,595	1,206,818	15.54	35.63	6,684,010
2025-06-16	211,385	678,740	31.14	36.37	7,688,072
2025-06-13	85,143	261,364	32.58	35.75	3,043,862
2025-06-12	95,930	331,089	28.97	36.24	3,476,503
2025-06-11	126,126	455,731	27.68	36.67	4,625,040
2025-06-10	97,488	337,825	28.86	37.25	3,631,428

Total	23,752,807	76,143,652	31.19	35.13	834,369,660

* Totals include all data records back to 2025-04-02 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.