Regulatory Shift Since 2005: Retail Investors Expose Market Maker Short Selling Abuse

Published in Stocks and Investing on Tuesday, August 12th 2025 at 15:45 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 Excelerate Energy, Inc. (EE), 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 Excelerate Energy, Inc. at $23.93, after crossing above the $23.845 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	590,977	1,664,297	35.51	23.4	13,828,862
2025-08-08	167,902	374,236	44.87	24.29	4,078,340
2025-08-07	167,469	372,901	44.91	24.46	4,096,292
2025-08-06	129,883	280,868	46.24	24.66	3,202,915
2025-08-05	321,955	681,209	47.26	24.76	7,971,606
2025-08-04	185,817	415,462	44.73	24.8	4,608,262
2025-08-01	325,431	755,182	43.09	25.55	8,314,762
2025-07-31	282,887	590,009	47.95	25.49	7,210,790
2025-07-30	394,748	716,692	55.08	25.19	9,943,702
2025-07-29	335,234	754,581	44.43	24.59	8,243,404
2025-07-28	152,900	493,751	30.97	23.88	3,651,252
2025-07-25	160,302	491,015	32.65	23.91	3,832,821
2025-07-24	165,863	380,610	43.58	24.81	4,115,061
2025-07-23	120,830	399,102	30.28	24.73	2,988,126
2025-07-22	138,346	512,992	26.97	24.84	3,436,515
2025-07-21	182,334	496,715	36.71	25.56	4,660,457
2025-07-18	242,398	683,845	35.45	26.65	6,459,907
2025-07-17	139,556	393,162	35.5	25.86	3,608,918
2025-07-16	206,762	389,272	53.12	26.41	5,460,584
2025-07-15	199,552	552,487	36.12	26.54	5,296,110
2025-07-14	169,300	499,627	33.89	26.76	4,530,468
2025-07-11	111,147	361,669	30.73	27.1	3,012,084
2025-07-10	130,588	514,812	25.37	27.11	3,540,241
2025-07-09	267,690	819,914	32.65	27.82	7,447,136
2025-07-08	131,064	626,969	20.9	28.06	3,677,656
2025-07-07	138,875	458,316	30.3	28.37	3,939,884
2025-07-03	61,394	183,276	33.5	28.92	1,775,514
2025-07-02	218,251	676,525	32.26	28.64	6,250,709
2025-07-01	189,858	559,786	33.92	28.73	5,454,620
2025-06-30	246,591	585,384	42.12	29.35	7,237,446
2025-06-27	528,485	2,055,089	25.72	29.52	15,600,877
2025-06-26	220,572	690,539	31.94	29.26	6,453,937
2025-06-25	219,189	480,246	45.64	28.76	6,303,876
2025-06-24	130,917	340,590	38.44	29.23	3,826,704
2025-06-23	131,167	436,428	30.05	29.16	3,824,830
2025-06-20	121,780	691,273	17.62	29.38	3,577,896
2025-06-18	99,614	389,526	25.57	29.68	2,956,544

Total	99,506,107	281,314,775	35.37	23.84	2,372,502,364

* Totals include all data records back to 2022-05-04 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.