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Short squeeze is starting in shares of UCBI at $32.13, after crossing above the $29.068 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-01-17 08:31:05 - 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 United Community Banks, Inc. (UCBI), 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 United Community Banks, Inc. at $32.13, after crossing above the $29.068 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
2024-08-05200,973774,25625.9627.835,593,079
2024-08-02255,065704,31536.2128.747,330,568
2024-08-01180,938699,50725.8729.845,399,190
2024-07-31175,654597,90029.3831.095,461,083
2024-07-30192,718605,13931.8531.045,981,967
2024-07-29188,725546,44634.5430.925,835,377
2024-07-26187,245654,44228.6131.55,898,218
2024-07-25313,1161,126,86927.7931.179,759,826
2024-07-24262,9261,035,92325.3830.277,958,770
2024-07-23432,1191,176,91436.7230.0712,993,818
2024-07-22139,884522,67526.7629.394,111,191
2024-07-19239,922614,24139.0629.237,012,920
2024-07-18334,829810,75741.329.449,857,366
2024-07-17263,788740,76735.6129.597,805,487
2024-07-16349,516823,07042.4629.0310,146,449
2024-07-15373,805735,44450.8328.0210,474,016
2024-07-12182,864502,07036.4227.054,946,471
2024-07-11371,862769,62248.3226.9410,017,962
2024-07-10121,075347,06434.8925.573,095,888
2024-07-09110,866451,29724.5724.862,756,129
2024-07-0890,472268,02533.7624.612,226,516
2024-07-05185,163444,65141.6424.74,573,526
2024-07-03100,605252,24639.8825.082,523,173
2024-07-02132,529401,72832.9925.453,372,863
2024-07-01113,895523,95621.7425.132,862,181
2024-06-28533,5021,713,75231.1325.4713,588,296
2024-06-27104,876336,32831.1825.152,637,631
2024-06-26106,403331,88532.0624.82,638,794
2024-06-25167,384385,17243.4624.814,152,797
2024-06-24142,241488,06529.1425.093,568,827
2024-06-21452,4481,606,03428.1724.6111,134,745
2024-06-20158,173413,16938.2824.683,903,710
2024-06-18245,640621,71839.5124.996,138,544
2024-06-17159,959414,58438.5824.513,920,595
2024-06-14150,921371,73940.624.233,656,816
2024-06-13195,308467,75141.7524.814,845,591
2024-06-12233,409501,40646.5525.15,858,566
 
Total252,549,990627,282,07440.2629.077,340,937,482
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-01-21 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.
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