Short Selling Abuse Exposed: Market Makers Evade Daily Covering Rules

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 Regal Rexnord Corporation (RRX), 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 Regal Rexnord Corporation at $146.19, after crossing above the $143.958 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	364,488	1,045,141	34.87	142.12	51,801,035
2025-08-11	398,306	673,797	59.11	138.03	54,978,177
2025-08-08	507,584	1,130,549	44.9	139.49	70,802,892
2025-08-07	495,778	1,518,274	32.65	141.95	70,375,687
2025-08-06	1,391,138	2,578,376	53.95	145.75	202,758,364
2025-08-05	583,864	1,275,195	45.79	145.87	85,168,242
2025-08-04	488,828	1,018,610	47.99	147.81	72,253,667
2025-08-01	559,047	1,023,652	54.61	148.45	82,990,527
2025-07-31	623,379	1,464,183	42.58	152.7	95,189,973
2025-07-30	899,133	1,409,647	63.78	156.13	140,381,635
2025-07-29	682,746	1,160,072	58.85	157.3	107,395,946
2025-07-28	904,547	1,417,922	63.79	158.99	143,813,928
2025-07-25	278,501	552,044	50.45	156.25	43,515,781
2025-07-24	277,910	581,108	47.82	154.31	42,884,292
2025-07-23	291,388	767,007	37.99	152.47	44,427,928
2025-07-22	312,057	836,877	37.29	149.52	46,658,763
2025-07-21	276,025	653,780	42.22	150.13	41,439,633
2025-07-18	400,595	715,489	55.99	152.36	61,034,654
2025-07-17	482,714	1,026,305	47.03	151.64	73,198,751
2025-07-16	455,151	1,043,552	43.62	145.75	66,338,258
2025-07-15	456,308	979,849	46.57	146.81	66,990,577
2025-07-14	494,989	1,157,894	42.75	146.91	72,718,834
2025-07-11	253,776	637,788	39.79	151.43	38,429,300
2025-07-10	163,316	391,873	41.68	152.11	24,841,997
2025-07-09	322,189	908,164	35.48	150.3	48,425,007
2025-07-08	315,529	950,207	33.21	150.13	47,370,369
2025-07-07	321,681	722,151	44.54	149.59	48,120,261
2025-07-03	252,667	585,581	43.15	152.24	38,466,024
2025-07-02	357,137	869,243	41.09	150.78	53,849,117
2025-07-01	373,832	1,087,404	34.38	146.97	54,942,089
2025-06-30	293,378	852,230	34.42	145.44	42,668,896
2025-06-27	514,452	1,805,608	28.49	146.68	75,459,819
2025-06-26	224,609	689,345	32.58	146.64	32,936,664
2025-06-25	350,987	850,281	41.28	143.53	50,377,164
2025-06-24	358,253	676,134	52.99	145.18	52,011,171
2025-06-23	218,290	711,619	30.68	140.17	30,597,709
2025-06-20	283,303	555,549	51	139.73	39,585,928

Total	193,859,941	523,523,033	37.03	143.95	27,906,234,497

* Totals include all data records back to 2021-12-07 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.