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Short squeeze is starting in shares of KMX at $81.33, after crossing above the $81.15 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-01-23 14:00:02 - 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 CarMax, Inc. (KMX), 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 CarMax, Inc. at $81.33, after crossing above the $81.15 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
2025-01-22868,8151,816,50847.8378.4668,167,225
2025-01-21734,3621,848,89739.7279.6258,469,902
2025-01-17810,1121,482,99254.6379.364,241,882
2025-01-16767,7091,465,57652.3879.7261,201,761
2025-01-15743,3171,533,64648.4780.5959,903,917
2025-01-14547,6711,709,10332.0479.3243,441,264
2025-01-13775,4102,300,62933.778.2460,668,078
2025-01-10720,3492,135,00933.7478.8256,777,908
2025-01-081,110,6902,678,71441.4681.4190,421,273
2025-01-07773,9462,337,23933.1179.161,219,129
2025-01-06809,1771,901,83342.5579.9664,701,793
2025-01-03951,4912,574,48436.9680.1676,271,519
2025-01-02916,2472,224,07441.281.6874,839,055
2024-12-31593,8631,576,52037.6781.7748,560,178
2024-12-30460,4261,565,49329.4182.3437,911,477
2024-12-27721,0071,576,53945.7383.8760,470,857
2024-12-26520,7591,325,11339.385.1844,358,252
2024-12-24487,230998,18348.8184.7141,273,253
2024-12-231,084,4602,086,82351.9783.4890,530,721
2024-12-201,945,2086,838,87828.4484.21163,805,966
2024-12-193,332,8225,872,03156.7685.13283,723,137
2024-12-181,890,7584,910,27138.5183.07157,065,267
2024-12-171,185,7263,228,37036.7383.6599,185,980
2024-12-16935,9953,111,16630.0985.880,308,371
2024-12-13695,5651,484,87246.8486.1659,929,880
2024-12-12789,2741,586,19149.7687.0768,722,087
2024-12-11855,1361,716,34349.8287.1474,516,551
2024-12-10620,6611,691,70436.6986.2153,507,185
2024-12-091,431,8703,109,51146.0587.3125,002,251
2024-12-061,631,7015,264,3273186.1140,489,456
2024-12-05822,4231,894,78043.484.5669,544,089
2024-12-04853,9361,891,96345.1383.8171,568,376
2024-12-031,074,0032,378,93145.1584.0690,280,692
2024-12-02815,8091,750,25846.6183.468,038,471
2024-11-29340,945807,45742.2284.2828,734,845
2024-11-27723,5311,958,62136.9484.6261,225,193
2024-11-26738,3191,555,67247.4684.7362,557,769
 
Total972,661,6382,386,375,32940.7681.1478,924,531,414
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-01-24 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.
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