Short Selling Scrutiny Intensifies Since RegSho Implementation

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 Monster Beverage Corporation (MNST), 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 Monster Beverage Corporation at $64.525, after crossing above the $64.229 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	1,772,301	8,588,954	20.63	63.4	112,363,883
2025-08-08	3,681,719	11,619,307	31.69	65.1	239,679,907
2025-08-07	2,314,563	8,708,832	26.58	60.58	140,216,227
2025-08-06	2,014,715	11,489,987	17.53	59.32	119,512,894
2025-08-05	2,115,168	8,054,233	26.26	59.14	125,091,036
2025-08-04	2,196,898	5,962,555	36.84	60.2	132,253,260
2025-08-01	1,873,231	12,110,442	15.47	58.92	110,370,771
2025-07-31	2,539,561	10,805,616	23.5	59.34	150,697,550
2025-07-30	1,524,374	3,969,231	38.4	61.23	93,337,420
2025-07-29	1,621,654	5,258,329	30.84	61.2	99,245,225
2025-07-28	1,091,838	3,589,504	30.42	60.24	65,772,321
2025-07-25	1,091,853	3,127,824	34.91	60.63	66,199,047
2025-07-24	1,582,863	4,303,532	36.78	60.02	95,003,437
2025-07-23	1,310,845	4,256,468	30.8	59.2	77,602,024
2025-07-22	1,399,181	3,990,947	35.06	59.5	83,251,270
2025-07-21	1,621,707	3,508,848	46.22	59.37	96,280,745
2025-07-18	2,017,170	5,405,369	37.32	59.22	119,456,807
2025-07-17	1,634,455	4,246,020	38.49	58.95	96,351,122
2025-07-16	1,706,337	4,412,264	38.67	58.7	100,161,982
2025-07-15	2,177,209	6,618,588	32.9	58.98	128,411,787
2025-07-14	1,716,214	5,537,313	30.99	59.59	102,269,192
2025-07-11	1,815,131	5,682,070	31.94	58.74	106,620,795
2025-07-10	1,587,114	5,482,515	28.95	59.21	93,973,020
2025-07-09	3,702,745	9,927,269	37.3	59.8	221,424,151
2025-07-08	1,237,053	5,746,571	21.53	61.7	76,326,170
2025-07-07	1,793,071	4,043,696	44.34	62.88	112,748,304
2025-07-03	1,834,277	3,783,418	48.48	62.9	115,376,023
2025-07-02	1,758,034	5,050,259	34.81	63.16	111,037,427
2025-07-01	2,291,865	5,945,689	38.55	63.62	145,808,451
2025-06-30	2,114,869	5,190,905	40.74	62.48	132,137,015
2025-06-27	2,732,538	7,289,051	37.49	61.67	168,515,618
2025-06-26	3,094,424	6,655,698	46.49	62.36	192,968,281
2025-06-25	1,653,454	4,660,450	35.48	62.44	103,241,668
2025-06-24	2,213,996	4,658,516	47.53	63.55	140,699,446
2025-06-23	1,813,555	5,230,694	34.67	63.15	114,525,998
2025-06-20	6,231,017	12,194,786	51.1	63.13	393,364,103
2025-06-18	1,875,502	4,923,243	38.09	63.18	118,494,216

Total	1,670,625,017	4,882,226,732	34.22	64.22	107,288,238,898

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

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Short Selling Scrutiny Intensifies Since RegSho Implementation