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Short squeeze is starting in shares of BBY at $86.32, after crossing above the $86.314 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-01-24 11:45:08 - 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 Best Buy Co., Inc. (BBY), 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 Best Buy Co., Inc. at $86.32, after crossing above the $86.314 Trigger Price. This could signal a buying opportunity, given the right market conditions.

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Please find the applicable data below, drawn from all major market providers.

DateShort VolumeTotal VolumePercentageSqueeze Trigger$ Value
2025-01-23807,6201,851,69343.6285.368,889,986
2025-01-22794,7572,043,25438.983.8866,664,217
2025-01-211,338,5643,236,60741.3684.03112,479,533
2025-01-171,626,3102,974,79954.6781.9133,194,789
2025-01-161,332,0983,036,73643.8782.17109,458,493
2025-01-151,144,9442,428,99847.1483.2395,293,689
2025-01-14885,2522,533,74034.9482.8473,334,276
2025-01-131,262,1623,244,83638.983.95105,958,500
2025-01-101,222,7962,526,61748.483.64102,274,657
2025-01-081,288,0422,558,87950.3483.8107,937,920
2025-01-07988,8612,620,27437.7484.583,558,755
2025-01-061,449,2272,804,60351.6784.89123,024,880
2025-01-031,690,4624,323,73039.184.14142,235,473
2025-01-02927,0872,021,48245.8686.2879,989,066
2024-12-31984,8682,281,97343.1685.7584,452,431
2024-12-30701,9272,753,16125.586.0460,393,799
2024-12-27870,0672,020,06843.0788.176,652,903
2024-12-261,546,7833,316,27546.6488.91137,524,477
2024-12-24547,3791,186,27646.1486.247,184,070
2024-12-23941,7812,317,76640.6385.1780,211,488
2024-12-201,824,9016,926,44826.3585.44155,919,541
2024-12-191,389,2483,390,01640.9885.14118,280,575
2024-12-181,173,4443,984,28129.4587.26102,394,723
2024-12-171,072,4642,614,39741.0287.1293,433,064
2024-12-161,702,1305,855,08729.0789.01151,506,591
2024-12-13824,1462,615,43431.5187.6972,269,363
2024-12-12933,3353,742,63724.9488.1782,292,147
2024-12-11845,4363,319,39225.4787.3673,857,289
2024-12-101,343,6636,197,75921.6886.62116,388,089
2024-12-091,481,3374,172,39435.587.65129,839,188
2024-12-061,322,2673,947,28733.588.59117,139,634
2024-12-051,162,5573,366,23834.5490.02104,653,381
2024-12-041,435,7724,154,48934.5690.19129,492,277
2024-12-031,478,5494,709,85531.3989.18131,857,000
2024-12-021,614,2724,779,50533.7790.76146,511,327
2024-11-291,194,1412,411,57449.5290.27107,795,108
2024-11-272,148,4475,041,00742.6288.35189,815,292
 
Total1,362,331,5433,828,689,96035.5886.31117,585,848,991
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-01-27 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.
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