Short Selling Scrutiny Intensifies Amid Retail Investor Awareness

Published in Stocks and Investing on Thursday, August 14th 2025 at 11:15 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 uniQure N.V. (QURE), 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 uniQure N.V. at $15.415, after crossing above the $15.174 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
2025-08-13	193,181	545,477	35.42	14.63	2,826,238
2025-08-12	391,320	879,017	44.52	14.26	5,580,223
2025-08-11	637,519	1,113,395	57.26	13.78	8,785,012
2025-08-08	202,351	435,314	46.48	13.3	2,691,268
2025-08-07	279,434	629,118	44.42	13.39	3,741,621
2025-08-06	310,214	710,044	43.69	13.53	4,197,195
2025-08-05	361,083	1,169,720	30.87	13.7	4,946,837
2025-08-04	262,761	709,182	37.05	13.75	3,612,964
2025-08-01	312,429	1,062,024	29.42	13.82	4,317,769
2025-07-31	541,660	1,223,243	44.28	14.05	7,610,323
2025-07-30	1,006,401	3,076,629	32.71	15.11	15,206,719
2025-07-29	1,744,158	4,017,743	43.41	13.49	23,528,691
2025-07-28	363,283	790,048	45.98	14.98	5,441,979
2025-07-25	295,993	593,244	49.89	15.14	4,481,334
2025-07-24	344,333	824,680	41.75	15.14	5,213,202
2025-07-23	661,784	1,874,753	35.3	15.21	10,065,735
2025-07-22	546,457	1,308,694	41.76	14.2	7,759,689
2025-07-21	344,762	845,452	40.78	14.61	5,036,973
2025-07-18	781,825	1,707,994	45.77	15.03	11,750,830
2025-07-17	777,347	2,143,688	36.26	15.33	11,916,730
2025-07-16	400,032	903,461	44.28	14.08	5,632,451
2025-07-15	368,816	866,628	42.56	14.04	5,178,177
2025-07-14	666,959	1,139,938	58.51	14.58	9,724,262
2025-07-11	610,809	1,093,227	55.87	14.49	8,850,622
2025-07-10	187,495	666,767	28.12	14.89	2,791,801
2025-07-09	445,983	1,219,670	36.57	14.89	6,640,687
2025-07-08	284,029	703,951	40.35	14.39	4,087,177
2025-07-07	254,600	633,416	40.19	14.34	3,650,964
2025-07-03	139,654	328,118	42.56	14.33	2,001,242
2025-07-02	388,220	803,434	48.32	14.41	5,594,250
2025-07-01	290,517	624,661	46.51	13.97	4,058,522
2025-06-30	465,062	1,185,415	39.23	14.06	6,538,772
2025-06-27	412,020	836,165	49.27	13.88	5,718,838
2025-06-26	429,169	903,720	47.49	14.34	6,154,283
2025-06-25	432,504	835,553	51.76	14.38	6,219,408
2025-06-24	432,238	852,314	50.71	14.27	6,168,036
2025-06-23	1,020,833	1,977,746	51.62	14.04	14,332,495

Total	409,166,750	1,147,192,333	35.67	15.17	6,207,417,587

* Totals include all data records back to 2020-08-17 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.