Market Makers Exploit Short-Selling Exemption, Leaving Retail Investors Unprotected

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 Priority Technology Holdings, Inc. (PRTH), 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 Priority Technology Holdings, Inc. at $7.41, after crossing above the $7.089 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	546,291	899,170	60.76	7.24	3,955,147
2025-08-08	163,845	432,682	37.87	7.55	1,237,030
2025-08-07	271,092	700,169	38.72	7.35	1,992,526
2025-08-06	138,884	348,396	39.86	6.81	945,800
2025-08-05	223,694	487,734	45.86	6.8	1,521,119
2025-08-04	149,293	329,693	45.28	6.96	1,039,079
2025-08-01	204,813	434,908	47.09	6.71	1,374,295
2025-07-31	131,924	334,396	39.45	6.85	903,679
2025-07-30	164,409	454,973	36.14	6.92	1,137,710
2025-07-29	326,232	665,489	49.02	7	2,283,624
2025-07-28	150,024	273,556	54.84	7.16	1,074,172
2025-07-25	154,188	317,890	48.5	7.05	1,087,025
2025-07-24	155,645	359,926	43.24	7.14	1,111,305
2025-07-23	195,854	592,850	33.04	7.11	1,392,522
2025-07-22	232,704	423,166	54.99	7.16	1,666,161
2025-07-21	188,633	355,752	53.02	7.17	1,352,499
2025-07-18	138,502	290,538	47.67	7.32	1,013,835
2025-07-17	237,120	435,749	54.42	7.39	1,752,317
2025-07-16	220,326	711,106	30.98	7.3	1,608,380
2025-07-15	333,461	653,794	51	7.16	2,387,581
2025-07-14	252,384	518,577	48.67	7.26	1,832,308
2025-07-11	338,920	723,658	46.83	7.68	2,602,906
2025-07-10	134,923	319,018	42.29	8.25	1,113,115
2025-07-09	229,444	522,123	43.94	8.17	1,874,557
2025-07-08	253,502	588,423	43.08	8.24	2,088,856
2025-07-07	298,214	723,629	41.21	8.55	2,549,730
2025-07-03	279,428	545,544	51.22	8.37	2,338,812
2025-07-02	266,010	786,623	33.82	7.85	2,088,179
2025-07-01	220,445	664,841	33.16	7.77	1,712,858
2025-06-30	249,155	582,864	42.75	7.78	1,938,426
2025-06-27	429,057	1,166,308	36.79	7.7	3,303,739
2025-06-26	191,254	552,142	34.64	7.93	1,516,644
2025-06-25	265,116	851,262	31.14	7.87	2,086,463
2025-06-24	248,298	1,611,188	15.41	8.13	2,018,663
2025-06-23	294,146	1,458,004	20.17	7.98	2,347,285
2025-06-20	392,627	822,512	47.74	7.93	3,113,532
2025-06-18	767,854	1,538,551	49.91	8.34	6,403,902

Total	60,682,903	161,994,202	37.46	7.09	430,280,931

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

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Market Makers Exploit Short-Selling Exemption, Leaving Retail Investors Unprotected