Qualys (QLYS) Faces Potential Short Squeeze as Data Reveals Market Maker Abuse

Published in Stocks and Investing on Wednesday, August 13th 2025 at 12:15 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 Qualys, Inc. (QLYS), 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 Qualys, Inc. at $131.79, after crossing above the $131.404 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
2025-08-12	113,469	331,686	34.21	129.34	14,676,080
2025-08-11	138,322	302,253	45.76	128.68	17,799,275
2025-08-08	157,762	310,792	50.76	128.52	20,275,572
2025-08-07	259,722	488,184	53.2	128.54	33,384,666
2025-08-06	518,566	878,857	59	129.41	67,107,626
2025-08-05	319,409	630,791	50.64	131.93	42,139,629
2025-08-04	270,526	523,290	51.7	135.03	36,529,126
2025-08-01	151,796	319,748	47.47	131.08	19,897,420
2025-07-31	115,496	280,797	41.13	133.54	15,423,336
2025-07-30	146,394	298,832	48.99	136.27	19,949,110
2025-07-29	91,461	261,577	34.97	137.34	12,561,254
2025-07-28	188,308	310,259	60.69	137.25	25,845,273
2025-07-25	199,419	368,323	54.14	137.55	27,430,083
2025-07-24	132,991	307,455	43.26	139.27	18,521,657
2025-07-23	79,735	176,313	45.22	140.54	11,205,957
2025-07-22	130,338	253,119	51.49	141.35	18,423,276
2025-07-21	92,053	211,757	43.47	139.77	12,866,248
2025-07-18	94,547	237,726	39.77	139.44	13,183,634
2025-07-17	120,977	344,193	35.15	139.31	16,853,306
2025-07-16	97,184	239,760	40.53	138.43	13,453,181
2025-07-15	131,414	305,121	43.07	138.38	18,185,069
2025-07-14	147,328	324,256	45.44	138.59	20,418,188
2025-07-11	132,609	289,799	45.76	136.6	18,114,389
2025-07-10	166,123	336,585	49.36	142.88	23,735,654
2025-07-09	111,818	255,618	43.74	145.67	16,288,528
2025-07-08	137,863	332,819	41.42	147.77	20,372,016
2025-07-07	149,203	374,350	39.86	147.85	22,059,664
2025-07-03	174,488	361,737	48.24	149.22	26,037,099
2025-07-02	100,632	310,159	32.45	144.01	14,492,014
2025-07-01	119,415	263,992	45.23	144.16	17,214,866
2025-06-30	61,556	191,170	32.2	142.8	8,790,197
2025-06-27	73,208	393,911	18.58	140.99	10,321,596
2025-06-26	68,512	228,845	29.94	141.7	9,708,150
2025-06-25	94,448	218,071	43.31	140.91	13,308,668
2025-06-24	109,090	229,879	47.46	140.12	15,285,691
2025-06-23	105,745	228,036	46.37	139.65	14,767,289
2025-06-20	164,743	618,438	26.64	136	22,405,048

Total	184,686,740	460,163,979	40.13	131.43	24,273,477,228

* Totals include all data records back to 2020-08-14 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.

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Qualys (QLYS) Faces Potential Short Squeeze as Data Reveals Market Maker Abuse