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Short squeeze is starting in shares of PLAY at $27.74, after crossing above the $27.587 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-01-23 11:15:04 - 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 Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc. (PLAY), 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 Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc. at $27.74, after crossing above the $27.587 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
2025-01-221,141,0462,410,16547.3426.7130,477,339
2025-01-211,387,2703,128,93144.3426.3236,512,946
2025-01-171,424,9294,119,47834.5924.1134,355,038
2025-01-161,535,4752,932,36352.3624.0436,912,819
2025-01-15833,5572,096,60239.7625.4621,222,361
2025-01-141,224,6372,080,03658.8825.5831,326,214
2025-01-131,235,3051,782,43069.327.2333,637,355
2025-01-101,159,5612,163,34553.628.0332,502,495
2025-01-08885,5091,794,86849.3429.125,768,312
2025-01-07846,2241,515,83955.8329.9625,352,871
2025-01-06601,4781,697,62035.4331.1818,754,084
2025-01-03432,773895,40448.3330.2313,082,728
2025-01-02681,5491,626,43141.930.1920,575,964
2024-12-31705,7351,461,50648.2929.4520,783,896
2024-12-30774,1371,366,96856.6328.5922,132,577
2024-12-27760,0401,174,06864.7429.2422,223,570
2024-12-26973,3401,513,09864.3329.3728,586,996
2024-12-24616,5521,069,25257.6629.4118,132,794
2024-12-23906,0011,572,66857.6128.1525,503,928
2024-12-201,101,5851,928,34357.1327.5330,326,635
2024-12-19675,5101,513,99344.6226.317,765,913
2024-12-181,301,4012,329,35355.8727.2135,411,121
2024-12-17888,3901,805,27749.2128.9125,683,355
2024-12-16704,0852,907,66024.2128.8820,333,975
2024-12-131,493,3883,706,31440.2927.2640,709,757
2024-12-122,336,3306,680,82934.9726.7762,543,554
2024-12-114,420,67910,560,04141.8630.48134,742,296
2024-12-101,921,3173,225,43259.5736.4369,993,578
2024-12-091,061,5181,626,57065.2635.8738,076,651
2024-12-06554,0161,129,20449.0636.920,443,190
2024-12-05809,4951,633,49949.5638.0330,785,095
2024-12-04459,389775,21259.2637.4217,190,336
2024-12-03554,779921,86060.1837.8621,003,933
2024-12-02700,6671,742,61040.2139.1327,417,100
2024-11-29342,124750,18645.6139.2413,424,946
2024-11-27379,186944,89840.1337.6214,264,977
2024-11-26487,0201,039,71246.8435.9817,522,980
 
Total1,045,128,5002,428,243,05143.0427.5828,827,027,966
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-01-24 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.
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