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Mon, January 27, 2025

Short squeeze is starting in shares of UVV at $52.73, after crossing above the $51.352 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-01-27 10:30:28 - 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 Universal Corporation (UVV), 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 Universal Corporation at $52.73, after crossing above the $51.352 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
2025-01-2447,071154,75730.4250.72,386,500
2025-01-2363,862122,27552.2350.583,230,140
2025-01-2248,222123,38639.0850.492,434,729
2025-01-2146,386111,24141.751.632,394,909
2025-01-1745,40594,24748.1851.012,316,109
2025-01-1663,363118,73753.3650.563,203,633
2025-01-1557,571110,93751.950.372,899,851
2025-01-1464,352181,91835.3750.273,234,975
2025-01-1381,994217,61437.6849.714,075,922
2025-01-1078,609212,59036.9850.473,967,396
2025-01-0843,366157,89127.4751.862,248,961
2025-01-0764,787183,45035.3252.493,400,670
2025-01-0666,364141,71046.8353.263,534,547
2025-01-0343,732126,90134.4654.662,390,391
2025-01-0250,249132,80637.8454.762,751,635
2024-12-3138,025104,69436.3254.852,085,671
2024-12-3043,016121,12935.5154.252,333,618
2024-12-2742,302101,25041.7854.292,296,576
2024-12-2646,933145,28432.354.812,572,398
2024-12-2427,60787,71731.4754.551,505,962
2024-12-23106,769241,61144.1954.395,807,166
2024-12-20164,2871,299,74112.6454.68,970,070
2024-12-1986,621239,43636.1854.634,732,105
2024-12-1867,101246,97327.1755.543,726,790
2024-12-1756,756153,83436.8956.383,199,903
2024-12-1653,086188,87928.1157.123,032,272
2024-12-1340,162113,11135.5156.342,262,727
2024-12-1230,780129,99023.6856.441,737,223
2024-12-1152,882169,57031.1956.512,988,362
2024-12-1048,329152,54531.6856.882,748,954
2024-12-0943,400129,50833.5156.712,461,214
2024-12-0633,41291,34336.5856.441,885,773
2024-12-0554,612128,00842.6656.793,101,415
2024-12-0449,739143,25834.7256.022,786,379
2024-12-0340,179130,67530.7556.052,252,033
2024-12-0263,866165,11838.6857.063,644,194
2024-11-2935,707103,59034.4757.062,037,441
 
Total66,893,277226,012,17629.651.353,435,054,807
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-01-28 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.
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