Short squeeze is starting in shares of VLY at $9.67, after crossing above the $9.656 Trigger Price

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 Valley National Bancorp (VLY), 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 Valley National Bancorp at $9.67, after crossing above the $9.656 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
2025-02-21	3,762,117	8,109,192	46.39	9.66	36,342,050
2025-02-20	1,988,443	5,115,378	38.87	9.83	19,546,395
2025-02-19	2,057,813	5,642,941	36.47	10.02	20,619,286
2025-02-18	1,908,969	4,402,623	43.36	10.04	19,166,049
2025-02-14	2,212,253	4,667,810	47.39	9.95	22,011,917
2025-02-13	3,295,323	7,268,823	45.34	9.85	32,458,932
2025-02-12	4,494,093	10,487,067	42.85	9.97	44,806,107
2025-02-11	4,013,257	9,052,419	44.33	10.24	41,095,752
2025-02-10	3,912,484	7,608,735	51.42	10.25	40,102,961
2025-02-07	3,631,645	8,190,488	44.34	10.32	37,478,576
2025-02-06	3,431,500	8,152,473	42.09	10.4	35,687,600
2025-02-05	3,250,647	6,046,885	53.76	10.3	33,481,664
2025-02-04	4,119,261	8,654,356	47.6	10.28	42,346,003
2025-02-03	4,909,064	11,685,493	42.01	10.05	49,336,093
2025-01-31	5,019,573	10,461,300	47.98	10.29	51,651,406
2025-01-30	4,329,711	9,361,948	46.25	10.33	44,725,915
2025-01-29	3,504,518	7,440,008	47.1	10.2	35,746,084
2025-01-28	3,509,660	9,365,777	37.47	10.18	35,728,339
2025-01-27	5,474,955	13,315,131	41.12	10.27	56,227,788
2025-01-24	5,156,677	10,078,323	51.17	10.16	52,391,838
2025-01-23	6,781,280	11,582,708	58.55	9.92	67,270,298
2025-01-22	4,460,202	8,565,424	52.07	9.75	43,486,970
2025-01-21	3,761,370	7,957,002	47.27	9.8	36,861,426
2025-01-17	3,755,866	8,177,586	45.93	9.56	35,906,079
2025-01-16	3,531,744	7,864,721	44.91	9.45	33,374,981
2025-01-15	5,420,577	11,365,918	47.69	9.48	51,387,070
2025-01-14	4,822,457	10,744,689	44.88	8.99	43,353,888
2025-01-13	3,324,965	7,524,725	44.19	8.65	28,760,947
2025-01-10	3,538,433	8,821,348	40.11	8.61	30,465,908
2025-01-08	3,508,686	7,584,888	46.26	8.92	31,297,479
2025-01-07	2,566,184	6,969,488	36.82	8.9	22,839,038
2025-01-06	2,025,025	6,583,436	30.76	9.13	18,488,478
2025-01-03	2,993,974	7,361,404	40.67	8.97	26,855,947
2025-01-02	2,602,144	6,942,190	37.48	8.95	23,289,189
2024-12-31	5,404,189	9,887,211	54.66	9.09	49,124,078
2024-12-30	2,308,477	4,567,120	50.55	9.1	21,007,141
2024-12-27	2,545,851	5,062,910	50.28	9.11	23,192,703

Total	2,169,817,234	4,515,442,981	48.05	9.66	20,950,659,278

* Totals include all data records back to 2020-02-25 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.

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Short squeeze is starting in shares of VLY at $9.67, after crossing above the $9.656 Trigger Price