Short Selling Scrutiny Intensifies Amid Retail Investor Awareness

Published in Stocks and Investing on Wednesday, August 6th 2025 at 11:15 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 Standard Motor Products, Inc. (SMP), 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 Standard Motor Products, Inc. at $35.675, after crossing above the $35.482 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
2025-08-05	199,908	432,996	46.17	34.17	6,830,856
2025-08-04	106,660	280,941	37.97	31.39	3,348,057
2025-08-01	105,280	300,299	35.06	30.26	3,185,773
2025-07-31	154,355	420,726	36.69	30.56	4,717,089
2025-07-30	301,572	407,540	74	31.99	9,647,288
2025-07-29	55,585	141,841	39.19	32.14	1,786,502
2025-07-28	52,548	106,316	49.43	32.46	1,705,708
2025-07-25	63,030	179,417	35.13	32.7	2,061,081
2025-07-24	75,990	139,982	54.29	32.99	2,506,910
2025-07-23	64,711	189,697	34.11	33.14	2,144,523
2025-07-22	67,440	191,983	35.13	32.28	2,176,963
2025-07-21	77,199	287,276	26.87	31.75	2,451,068
2025-07-18	99,692	188,848	52.79	31.54	3,144,286
2025-07-17	71,515	248,340	28.8	32.38	2,315,656
2025-07-16	62,067	108,613	57.15	32.47	2,015,315
2025-07-15	65,910	246,227	26.77	32.32	2,130,211
2025-07-14	92,283	261,358	35.31	33	3,045,339
2025-07-11	47,009	191,455	24.55	32.93	1,548,006
2025-07-10	55,735	140,705	39.61	33.64	1,874,925
2025-07-09	67,428	159,809	42.19	33.51	2,259,512
2025-07-08	89,449	179,121	49.94	33.5	2,996,542
2025-07-07	95,384	240,480	39.66	33.24	3,170,564
2025-07-03	36,925	61,381	60.16	33.38	1,232,557
2025-07-02	146,586	305,995	47.9	33.2	4,866,655
2025-07-01	80,471	162,356	49.56	32.03	2,577,486
2025-06-30	75,095	291,331	25.78	30.71	2,306,167
2025-06-27	80,588	328,451	24.54	31.01	2,499,034
2025-06-26	86,794	134,580	64.49	30.46	2,643,745
2025-06-25	106,154	175,247	60.57	29.79	3,162,328
2025-06-24	91,903	189,868	48.4	30.39	2,792,932
2025-06-23	106,761	292,257	36.53	30.58	3,264,751
2025-06-20	139,571	309,256	45.13	30.32	4,231,793
2025-06-18	119,535	223,519	53.48	30.61	3,658,966
2025-06-17	61,938	216,142	28.66	30.18	1,869,289
2025-06-16	71,622	199,350	35.93	30.53	2,186,620
2025-06-13	44,152	107,965	40.89	30.27	1,336,481
2025-06-12	75,901	143,414	52.92	30.99	2,352,172

Total	54,389,790	196,714,952	27.65	35.47	1,929,379,994

* Totals include all data records back to 2020-08-07 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.