Market Makers Skew Short Selling Data with Exemption Abuse

Published in Stocks and Investing on Tuesday, August 12th 2025 at 14:30 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 (FSUN), 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 $36.015, after crossing above the $35.943 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	24,428	48,625	50.24	35.22	860,354
2025-08-08	38,709	65,315	59.27	34.9	1,350,944
2025-08-07	25,205	48,197	52.3	34.35	865,792
2025-08-06	42,966	69,823	61.54	34.97	1,502,521
2025-08-05	46,491	82,198	56.56	34.73	1,614,632
2025-08-04	61,082	88,207	69.25	34.6	2,113,437
2025-08-01	67,454	115,003	58.65	35.13	2,369,659
2025-07-31	49,937	100,149	49.86	35.59	1,777,258
2025-07-30	128,633	247,085	52.06	36.17	4,652,656
2025-07-29	86,684	191,761	45.2	36.91	3,199,506
2025-07-28	50,566	97,460	51.88	39.03	1,973,591
2025-07-25	55,429	111,013	49.93	38.85	2,153,417
2025-07-24	51,397	108,079	47.56	39.02	2,005,511
2025-07-23	62,564	160,675	38.94	39.4	2,465,022
2025-07-22	51,710	109,018	47.43	39.6	2,047,716
2025-07-21	45,864	89,962	50.98	39.36	1,805,207
2025-07-18	42,414	86,932	48.79	39.01	1,654,570
2025-07-17	62,239	101,677	61.21	38.65	2,405,537
2025-07-16	58,525	110,254	53.08	37.79	2,211,660
2025-07-15	64,781	115,627	56.03	37.67	2,440,300
2025-07-14	138,868	198,981	69.79	37.77	5,245,044
2025-07-11	56,982	108,213	52.66	37.39	2,130,557
2025-07-10	37,500	97,211	38.58	37.67	1,412,625
2025-07-09	72,060	150,309	47.94	37.66	2,713,780
2025-07-08	62,984	135,550	46.47	37.72	2,375,756
2025-07-07	60,163	123,103	48.87	36.94	2,222,421
2025-07-03	31,299	84,787	36.91	37.42	1,171,209
2025-07-02	72,681	148,003	49.11	36.64	2,663,032
2025-07-01	81,519	223,133	36.53	35.9	2,926,532
2025-06-30	72,504	189,415	38.28	34.79	2,522,414
2025-06-27	655,961	1,609,967	40.74	34.54	22,656,893
2025-06-26	39,800	91,758	43.37	34.49	1,372,702
2025-06-25	28,680	65,570	43.74	33.72	967,090
2025-06-24	41,228	93,940	43.89	34.18	1,409,173
2025-06-23	53,474	144,680	36.96	33.67	1,800,470
2025-06-20	63,101	136,907	46.09	33.3	2,101,263
2025-06-18	39,999	106,660	37.5	33.37	1,334,767

Total	4,404,302	12,938,311	34.04	35.94	158,286,265

* Totals include all data records back to 2025-03-06 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.

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Market Makers Skew Short Selling Data with Exemption Abuse