Regulatory Oversight: Short Selling Abuse Surfaces as Market Makers Exploit Exemptions

Published in Stocks and Investing on Wednesday, August 13th 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 Kimball Electronics, Inc. (KE), 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 Kimball Electronics, Inc. at $21.29, after crossing above the $20.957 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	56,848	166,130	34.22	20.8	1,182,438
2025-08-11	58,765	118,453	49.61	19.82	1,164,722
2025-08-08	63,939	129,954	49.2	19.85	1,269,189
2025-08-07	42,102	83,427	50.47	19.38	815,937
2025-08-06	40,915	93,549	43.74	19.01	777,794
2025-08-05	45,999	95,645	48.09	18.86	867,541
2025-08-04	36,893	86,037	42.88	18.74	691,375
2025-08-01	44,942	108,892	41.27	18.25	820,192
2025-07-31	49,991	113,240	44.15	18.67	933,332
2025-07-30	46,855	129,711	36.12	19.27	902,896
2025-07-29	34,591	95,588	36.19	19.06	659,304
2025-07-28	33,195	75,803	43.79	18.78	623,402
2025-07-25	25,340	72,947	34.74	18.64	472,338
2025-07-24	44,264	119,606	37.01	19.02	841,901
2025-07-23	29,630	100,230	29.56	19.56	579,563
2025-07-22	41,839	101,526	41.21	19.41	812,095
2025-07-21	35,164	91,550	38.41	19.39	681,830
2025-07-18	47,390	108,412	43.71	19.34	916,523
2025-07-17	25,688	72,474	35.44	19.45	499,632
2025-07-16	40,422	101,790	39.71	19.35	782,166
2025-07-15	50,741	120,064	42.26	19.52	990,464
2025-07-14	33,541	106,922	31.37	19.5	654,050
2025-07-11	34,143	91,777	37.2	19.63	670,227
2025-07-10	30,680	95,984	31.96	20.13	617,588
2025-07-09	27,187	82,946	32.78	20.12	547,002
2025-07-08	48,187	159,750	30.16	20.27	976,750
2025-07-07	60,035	159,508	37.64	20.13	1,208,505
2025-07-03	17,107	48,399	35.35	20.25	346,417
2025-07-02	34,815	108,967	31.95	19.98	695,604
2025-07-01	41,680	164,346	25.36	19.58	816,094
2025-06-30	37,783	120,359	31.39	19.23	726,567
2025-06-27	66,360	194,132	34.18	19.22	1,275,439
2025-06-26	42,431	111,168	38.17	19.29	818,494
2025-06-25	25,120	108,902	23.07	19.21	482,555
2025-06-24	35,237	92,739	38	19.26	678,665
2025-06-23	59,306	156,819	37.82	19.1	1,132,745
2025-06-20	93,254	265,571	35.11	18.92	1,764,366

Total	42,067,026	124,083,316	33.9	20.96	881,831,410

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

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Regulatory Oversight: Short Selling Abuse Surfaces as Market Makers Exploit Exemptions