Wed, August 13, 2025

Market Makers Skirting Regulations: Uncovered Short-Selling Abuse Since 2005

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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 Employers Holdings, Inc. (EIG), 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 Employers Holdings, Inc. at $42.45, after crossing above the $42.307 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.

DateShort VolumeTotal VolumePercentageSqueeze Trigger$ Value
2025-08-1285,576270,13531.6842.123,604,461
2025-08-1181,739238,95734.2141.33,375,821
2025-08-08107,594251,30642.8141.244,437,177
2025-08-0795,232324,24429.3741.253,928,320
2025-08-06113,555239,19347.4741.814,747,735
2025-08-05126,338331,39238.1240.625,131,850
2025-08-04139,231336,73341.3539.455,492,663
2025-08-01242,858537,90545.1539.049,481,176
2025-07-31197,481592,94233.3141.888,270,504
2025-07-3081,657201,45040.5345.823,741,524
2025-07-2978,961205,13638.4946.13,640,102
2025-07-2870,489190,63636.9845.773,226,282
2025-07-2571,734183,86539.0145.933,294,743
2025-07-2465,958160,93440.9845.573,005,706
2025-07-2364,450154,93941.645.982,963,411
2025-07-2288,603226,61139.146.24,093,459
2025-07-2183,232182,43045.6245.823,813,690
2025-07-1873,746235,78231.2846.573,434,351
2025-07-1754,200185,25029.2646.732,532,766
2025-07-1656,018135,89741.2246.342,595,874
2025-07-1574,250182,29740.7345.983,414,015
2025-07-1453,717153,30035.0446.752,511,270
2025-07-1175,809196,20338.6446.213,503,134
2025-07-1059,731141,50942.2146.222,760,767
2025-07-0938,199122,26931.2446.621,780,837
2025-07-0871,254278,39025.646.943,344,663
2025-07-0796,748217,09044.5747.274,573,278
2025-07-0346,448121,54338.2247.682,214,641
2025-07-0259,156197,54429.9546.82,768,501
2025-07-0137,307146,47125.4747.531,773,202
2025-06-3053,119341,69115.5547.122,502,967
2025-06-2762,274393,42415.8346.962,924,387
2025-06-2631,492197,85215.9246.491,464,063
2025-06-2541,758119,78834.8646.241,930,890
2025-06-2452,501197,82026.5447.392,488,022
2025-06-2341,468193,97721.3847.311,961,851
2025-06-2074,006590,81912.5346.533,443,499
 
Total47,626,491206,616,40123.0542.312,015,013,632
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-08-14 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.