Market Maker Abuse in Short Selling: Five Below Shares Exposed

Published in Stocks and Investing on Tuesday, August 12th 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 Five Below, Inc. (FIVE), 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 Five Below, Inc. at $137.515, after crossing above the $136.928 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
2025-08-11	341,743	982,026	34.8	132.89	45,414,227
2025-08-08	236,311	721,827	32.74	133.47	31,540,429
2025-08-07	367,631	1,205,100	30.51	132.99	48,891,247
2025-08-06	289,433	734,094	39.43	135.42	39,195,017
2025-08-05	297,767	734,651	40.53	136.29	40,582,664
2025-08-04	376,024	969,454	38.79	135.97	51,127,983
2025-08-01	453,761	1,236,765	36.69	132.59	60,164,171
2025-07-31	330,072	889,390	37.11	136.65	45,104,339
2025-07-30	448,195	923,907	48.51	138.57	62,106,381
2025-07-29	621,329	1,325,949	46.86	139.91	86,930,140
2025-07-28	443,265	1,111,695	39.87	141.7	62,810,651
2025-07-25	267,045	709,331	37.65	138.87	37,084,539
2025-07-24	362,847	802,111	45.24	137.57	49,916,862
2025-07-23	375,591	877,179	42.82	139.21	52,286,023
2025-07-22	553,068	1,376,879	40.17	139.37	77,081,087
2025-07-21	634,354	1,279,767	49.57	140.21	88,942,774
2025-07-18	722,540	1,392,256	51.9	139.2	100,577,568
2025-07-17	999,501	1,854,843	53.89	139.69	139,620,295
2025-07-16	736,969	1,407,522	52.36	135.07	99,542,403
2025-07-15	789,396	1,437,345	54.92	132.97	104,965,986
2025-07-14	558,093	1,047,956	53.26	133.16	74,315,664
2025-07-11	401,623	934,189	42.99	129.71	52,094,519
2025-07-10	300,312	935,230	32.11	130.71	39,253,782
2025-07-09	468,769	1,074,507	43.63	129.01	60,475,889
2025-07-08	467,147	1,288,239	36.26	128.53	60,042,404
2025-07-07	530,337	1,326,477	39.98	129.68	68,774,102
2025-07-03	184,669	673,499	27.42	132.33	24,437,249
2025-07-02	471,623	1,562,033	30.19	130.62	61,603,396
2025-07-01	486,116	1,282,802	37.89	133.17	64,736,068
2025-06-30	271,925	743,103	36.59	131.22	35,681,999
2025-06-27	514,919	1,810,399	28.44	130.95	67,428,643
2025-06-26	642,235	1,409,748	45.56	130.78	83,991,493
2025-06-25	528,421	1,117,579	47.28	127.14	67,183,446
2025-06-24	228,813	721,711	31.7	124.66	28,523,829
2025-06-23	361,769	1,351,097	26.78	123.91	44,826,797
2025-06-20	649,972	1,454,738	44.68	123.01	79,953,056
2025-06-18	460,798	1,063,084	43.35	123.85	57,069,832

Total	526,988,598	1,335,486,908	39.46	136.94	72,166,605,227

* Totals include all data records back to 2020-08-13 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.

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Market Maker Abuse in Short Selling: Five Below Shares Exposed