Short Selling Scrutiny Intensifies as Retail Investors Gain Insight

Published in Stocks and Investing on Monday, August 4th 2025 at 10:30 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 SPDR S&P Transportation ETF (XTN), 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 SPDR S&P Transportation ETF at $81.935, after crossing above the $81.829 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	1,074	6,228	17.24	80.58	86,543
2025-07-31	2,149	14,093	15.25	82.58	177,464
2025-07-30	1,551	7,461	20.79	83.51	129,524
2025-07-29	1,018	7,137	14.26	85.89	87,436
2025-07-28	676	8,524	7.93	87.32	59,028
2025-07-25	2,924	11,423	25.6	87.25	255,119
2025-07-24	3,695	10,113	36.54	87.03	321,576
2025-07-23	1,958	9,295	21.07	87.46	171,247
2025-07-22	924	5,765	16.03	85.9	79,372
2025-07-21	390	4,825	8.08	85.31	33,271
2025-07-18	1,036	6,605	15.69	85.02	88,081
2025-07-17	2,669	27,150	9.83	86.03	229,614
2025-07-16	26,857	334,642	8.03	84.81	2,277,742
2025-07-15	1,172	26,309	4.45	84.76	99,339
2025-07-14	1,159	6,181	18.75	85.47	99,060
2025-07-11	1,722	13,550	12.71	86.01	148,109
2025-07-10	2,412	37,853	6.37	87.59	211,267
2025-07-09	1,328	6,311	21.04	83.88	111,393
2025-07-08	1,433	4,237	33.82	84.26	120,745
2025-07-07	9,113	75,377	12.09	82.87	755,194
2025-07-03	1,593	4,446	35.83	84.48	134,577
2025-07-02	2,780	8,439	32.94	83.64	232,519
2025-07-01	3,592	12,615	28.47	82.29	295,586
2025-06-30	973	4,743	20.51	80.7	78,521
2025-06-27	4,167	14,562	28.62	80.76	336,527
2025-06-26	846	3,710	22.8	80.02	67,697
2025-06-25	4,570	8,037	56.86	79.15	361,716
2025-06-24	3,195	8,807	36.28	79.93	255,376
2025-06-23	1,503	11,453	13.12	76.94	115,641
2025-06-20	1,529	8,835	17.31	77.22	118,069
2025-06-18	1,308	12,128	10.78	76.95	100,651
2025-06-17	1,853	6,834	27.11	76.84	142,385
2025-06-16	16,474	32,216	51.14	77.77	1,281,183
2025-06-13	6,397	13,545	47.23	76.34	488,347
2025-06-12	2,774	53,416	5.19	77.47	214,902
2025-06-11	271	3,373	8.03	78.83	21,363
2025-06-10	988	5,119	19.3	79.87	78,912

Total	28,673,789	70,289,987	40.79	81.84	2,346,588,041

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