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Short squeeze is starting in shares of AVNT at $42.14, after crossing above the $41.97 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-01-17 10:30:04 - 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 Avient Corporation (AVNT), 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 Avient Corporation at $42.14, after crossing above the $41.97 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.

DateShort VolumeTotal VolumePercentageSqueeze Trigger$ Value
2025-01-16193,979670,32728.9441.338,017,152
2025-01-15223,802542,32641.2741.439,272,117
2025-01-14196,063630,44231.140.17,862,126
2025-01-13218,128602,66836.1939.578,631,325
2025-01-10228,843742,30130.8338.128,723,495
2025-01-08138,665474,88929.238.815,381,589
2025-01-07236,177831,51028.439.349,291,203
2025-01-06197,401504,91039.139.727,840,768
2025-01-03185,123774,86523.8939.357,284,590
2025-01-02335,619951,12535.2940.4613,579,145
2024-12-31226,769763,50729.740.819,254,443
2024-12-30166,208645,20525.7640.146,671,589
2024-12-27126,967453,93227.9740.525,144,703
2024-12-26119,962559,14221.4541.294,953,231
2024-12-2464,719253,97225.4841.32,672,895
2024-12-23201,097624,75532.1940.968,236,933
2024-12-20332,6651,851,47417.9741.5713,828,884
2024-12-19247,155882,28128.0141.810,331,079
2024-12-18296,9001,238,83523.9743.712,974,530
2024-12-17212,802923,71623.0446.049,797,404
2024-12-16124,856739,37716.8947.025,870,729
2024-12-13133,093471,44828.2347.686,345,874
2024-12-12120,049523,94322.9148.485,819,976
2024-12-11151,474794,79019.0649.247,458,580
2024-12-10241,722626,21438.649.6211,994,246
2024-12-09204,166600,412345010,208,300
2024-12-06169,398472,45835.8549.958,461,430
2024-12-05233,291559,27141.7150.0411,673,882
2024-12-04154,3451,017,18515.1750.497,792,879
2024-12-03187,203463,89140.3551.39,603,514
2024-12-02151,481456,98333.1551.397,784,609
2024-11-29132,320270,69648.8851.296,786,693
2024-11-27167,653694,17424.1551.868,694,485
2024-11-26284,983535,17753.2552.514,961,608
2024-11-25306,6771,068,01028.7153.2316,324,417
2024-11-22180,444554,49232.5452.139,406,546
2024-11-21193,081493,78439.151.049,854,854
 
Total165,717,372572,864,16028.9341.976,955,061,822
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-11-09 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.
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