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Short squeeze is starting in shares of PFLT at $11.13, after crossing above the $11.107 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-01-17 10:00:22 - 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 PennantPark Floating Rate Capital Ltd. (PFLT), 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 PennantPark Floating Rate Capital Ltd. at $11.13, after crossing above the $11.107 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
2025-01-16427,146863,87049.4511.054,719,963
2025-01-15410,092679,73260.3311.024,519,214
2025-01-14635,8391,006,97263.1411.067,032,379
2025-01-13436,407747,79358.3610.924,765,564
2025-01-10619,2251,032,0506010.946,774,322
2025-01-08449,973714,79162.9510.994,945,203
2025-01-07460,796679,58067.8111.055,091,796
2025-01-06518,946855,08260.6911.095,755,111
2025-01-03436,264932,78346.7711.094,838,168
2025-01-02484,677942,23751.44115,331,447
2024-12-31529,9041,242,52142.6510.945,797,150
2024-12-30330,990852,17038.8410.823,581,312
2024-12-27284,602694,01841.0110.823,079,394
2024-12-26291,246736,79439.5310.813,148,369
2024-12-24198,033411,40648.1410.822,142,717
2024-12-23692,6561,332,87451.9710.687,397,566
2024-12-201,079,4433,766,23028.6610.711,550,040
2024-12-19345,235814,71642.3710.763,714,729
2024-12-18404,305885,04045.6810.824,374,580
2024-12-17531,0151,025,15151.810.795,729,652
2024-12-16755,9341,464,36251.6210.858,201,884
2024-12-13445,4131,019,86343.6711.024,908,451
2024-12-12286,338595,17448.1111.043,161,172
2024-12-11457,516950,78948.1211.025,041,826
2024-12-10342,661758,43745.1811.083,796,684
2024-12-09318,237697,62245.6211.093,529,248
2024-12-06244,239606,91140.2411.052,698,841
2024-12-05274,657582,02047.1911.033,029,467
2024-12-04249,829558,82844.7111.042,758,112
2024-12-03309,231642,31648.1411.053,417,003
2024-12-02563,0361,015,94555.4211.046,215,917
2024-11-29188,400492,96038.2211.192,108,196
2024-11-27314,583639,11849.2211.093,488,725
2024-11-26614,0211,091,28856.2710.986,741,951
2024-11-25381,529941,36640.5311.054,215,895
2024-11-22250,053588,40942.511.072,768,087
2024-11-21325,148757,16242.9411.063,596,137
 
Total222,756,754528,684,91042.1311.112,473,988,382
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-01-21 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.
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