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Short squeeze is starting in shares of DRD at $9.93, after crossing above the $9.727 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-01-22 10:30:14 - 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 DRDGOLD Limited (DRD), 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 DRDGOLD Limited at $9.93, after crossing above the $9.727 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
2025-01-21102,354247,24941.49.63985,669
2025-01-1760,614149,03340.679.3563,710
2025-01-1670,237136,38651.59.41660,930
2025-01-15100,278229,82843.639.38940,608
2025-01-14108,614438,43824.779.471,028,575
2025-01-1394,683260,37036.368.89841,732
2025-01-10142,688358,95939.759.351,334,133
2025-01-0872,209250,44128.838.96646,993
2025-01-07114,533258,45144.328.861,014,762
2025-01-0649,259149,38232.988.71429,046
2025-01-0361,743188,91832.688.9549,513
2025-01-0249,148169,35429.028.97440,858
2024-12-3131,823100,77831.588.63274,632
2024-12-3062,876148,32042.398.55537,590
2024-12-2767,905170,34639.868.56581,267
2024-12-2637,727104,23736.198.61324,829
2024-12-2419,95960,08633.228.62172,047
2024-12-2371,255234,40930.48.76624,194
2024-12-20145,4241,292,73011.258.821,282,640
2024-12-1983,315213,87238.968.84736,505
2024-12-18117,352254,68046.088.961,051,474
2024-12-1773,268200,15336.619.22675,531
2024-12-1698,165272,83535.989.27909,990
2024-12-13162,078742,10721.849.271,502,463
2024-12-1296,536187,94351.369.62928,676
2024-12-1198,626234,10442.1310.05991,191
2024-12-10128,603201,69163.769.731,251,307
2024-12-09149,833300,99849.789.891,481,848
2024-12-0681,139154,41152.559.38761,084
2024-12-0556,224104,10354.019.57538,064
2024-12-0465,691128,34851.189.67635,232
2024-12-0391,755169,54154.129.73892,776
2024-12-0247,506127,33437.319.51451,782
2024-11-2951,161125,88340.649.75498,820
2024-11-2769,975188,30937.169.62673,160
2024-11-2687,503193,68645.189.66845,279
2024-11-25119,426324,26436.839.541,139,324
 
Total151,290,393427,539,11335.399.731,471,654,292
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-01-23 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.
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