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Short Selling Scrutiny: Market Makers Exploit the Exemption

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Published in Stocks and Investing on Wednesday, August 13th 2025 at 10:15 GMT by WOPRAI

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 WEX Inc. (WEX), 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 WEX Inc. at $172.875, after crossing above the $172.085 Trigger Price. This could signal a buying opportunity, given the right market conditions.

You can find the full report at [ https://www.woprai.com/ ]

Please find the applicable data below, drawn from all major market providers.

Date	Short Volume	Total Volume	Percentage	Squeeze Trigger	$ Value
2025-08-12	201,468	396,263	50.84	170.5	34,350,294
2025-08-11	187,844	280,025	67.08	167.08	31,384,976
2025-08-08	189,400	500,816	37.82	168.62	31,936,628
2025-08-07	243,028	533,762	45.53	169.94	41,300,178
2025-08-06	254,119	493,372	51.51	171.49	43,578,867
2025-08-05	247,682	546,790	45.3	170.04	42,115,847
2025-08-04	154,303	324,096	47.61	168.5	26,000,056
2025-08-01	248,136	383,818	64.65	166.3	41,265,017
2025-07-31	245,132	596,240	41.11	170	41,672,440
2025-07-30	294,525	464,614	63.39	172.14	50,699,534
2025-07-29	309,570	807,968	38.31	173.13	53,595,854
2025-07-28	295,493	558,017	52.95	175.61	51,891,526
2025-07-25	347,742	885,603	39.27	175.26	60,945,263
2025-07-24	569,596	1,421,246	40.08	175.17	99,776,131
2025-07-23	443,209	858,865	51.6	162.93	72,212,042
2025-07-22	416,486	730,139	57.04	160.16	66,704,398
2025-07-21	263,040	513,291	51.25	154.87	40,737,005
2025-07-18	215,668	404,659	53.3	153.29	33,059,748
2025-07-17	188,991	315,412	59.92	153.42	28,994,999
2025-07-16	214,214	347,996	61.56	150.37	32,211,359
2025-07-15	170,508	361,379	47.18	149.71	25,526,753
2025-07-14	165,452	266,300	62.13	151.56	25,075,905
2025-07-11	192,534	396,033	48.62	150.96	29,064,933
2025-07-10	130,498	257,703	50.64	153.85	20,077,117
2025-07-09	157,089	381,323	41.2	151.36	23,776,991
2025-07-08	183,456	333,621	54.99	152.55	27,986,213
2025-07-07	185,934	806,374	23.06	149.74	27,841,757
2025-07-03	108,996	210,667	51.74	151.38	16,499,814
2025-07-02	256,173	406,652	63	151.09	38,705,179
2025-07-01	221,894	398,526	55.68	150.31	33,352,887
2025-06-30	210,761	450,760	46.76	146.7	30,918,639
2025-06-27	493,278	1,722,769	28.63	147.6	72,807,833
2025-06-26	370,365	535,995	69.1	148.75	55,091,794
2025-06-25	394,142	533,829	73.83	143.73	56,650,030
2025-06-24	367,760	491,239	74.86	144.08	52,986,861
2025-06-23	407,275	748,865	54.39	141.47	57,617,194
2025-06-20	362,573	709,343	51.11	140.61	50,981,390

Total	196,070,787	549,079,677	35.71	172.09	33,741,111,536

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