Short Selling Scrutiny Intensifies as Retail Investors Gain Insight

Published in Stocks and Investing on Monday, August 11th 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 (DRREF), 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 at $9.35, after crossing above the $8.946 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
2025-08-08	500	1,000	50	8.99	4,494
2025-08-07	200	800	25	9.13	1,825
2025-08-06	1,200	15,325	7.83	9.17	11,004
2025-08-05	3,100	3,600	86.11	9.07	28,129
2025-07-30	300	300	100	9.3	2,790
2025-07-28	213	7,963	2.67	9.17	1,953
2025-07-23	105	2,205	4.76	9.27	973
2025-07-22	100	1,200	8.33	8.86	886
2025-07-17	40	1,575	2.54	9.11	364
2025-07-15	500	500	100	9.15	4,575
2025-07-14	1,000	1,100	90.91	9.21	9,210
2025-07-11	1,500	5,812	25.81	9.09	13,635
2025-07-08	5,705	6,305	90.48	9.11	51,967
2025-07-07	7,600	9,100	83.52	9.25	70,300
2025-07-02	28,045	30,614	91.61	9.35	262,109
2025-06-27	3,550	4,650	76.34	9.03	32,057
2025-06-23	460	3,110	14.79	9.29	4,274
2025-06-20	300	300	100	9.33	2,800
2025-06-18	4,060	5,740	70.73	9.32	37,851
2025-06-16	1,300	10,820	12.01	9.18	11,930
2025-06-10	100	1,650	6.06	9.08	908
2025-06-09	300	1,400	21.43	9.15	2,746
2025-06-04	20	1,620	1.23	8.85	177
2025-06-03	4,500	5,600	80.36	9.04	40,662
2025-06-02	548	1,400	39.14	9	4,932
2025-05-28	100	100	100	9.35	935
2025-05-23	100	100	100	8.89	889
2025-05-22	3,300	9,700	34.02	8.65	28,535
2025-05-20	200	2,400	8.33	9.01	1,802
2025-05-15	100	1,100	9.09	8.76	876
2025-05-14	4,750	11,300	42.04	8.99	42,693
2025-05-13	9,100	9,303	97.82	8.93	81,263
2025-05-09	500	1,800	27.78	8.8	4,398
2025-05-08	7,800	21,598	36.11	8.72	67,993
2025-05-07	101	401	25.19	8.59	868
2025-05-06	1,748	10,200	17.14	9.03	15,781
2025-05-02	5,400	10,980	49.18	8.75	47,245

Total	167,691	330,890	50.68	8.95	1,500,195

* Totals include all data records back to 2025-03-11 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.

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Short Selling Scrutiny Intensifies as Retail Investors Gain Insight