Short squeeze is starting in shares of WAFD at $30.46, after crossing above the $30.392 Trigger Price

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 WaFd, Inc. (WAFD), 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 WaFd, Inc. at $30.46, after crossing above the $30.392 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.

Date	Short Volume	Total Volume	Percentage	Squeeze Trigger	$ Value
2025-01-24	179,271	531,141	33.75	29.59	5,304,629
2025-01-23	297,016	613,789	48.39	29.4	8,732,270
2025-01-22	261,631	582,947	44.88	29.35	7,678,870
2025-01-21	403,537	774,644	52.09	29.96	12,089,969
2025-01-17	754,373	1,302,195	57.93	30.24	22,812,240
2025-01-16	610,648	1,208,452	50.53	31.18	19,040,005
2025-01-15	325,271	762,297	42.67	32	10,408,672
2025-01-14	268,380	614,923	43.64	31.18	8,368,088
2025-01-13	301,259	856,939	35.16	30.21	9,101,034
2025-01-10	221,695	517,920	42.8	30.62	6,788,301
2025-01-08	158,782	380,907	41.69	32.06	5,090,551
2025-01-07	158,777	330,028	48.11	32.16	5,106,268
2025-01-06	182,462	384,143	47.5	32.78	5,981,104
2025-01-03	157,608	307,773	51.21	32.24	5,081,282
2025-01-02	211,755	412,890	51.29	32.08	6,793,100
2024-12-31	238,878	431,280	55.39	32.27	7,708,593
2024-12-30	124,078	311,382	39.85	32.41	4,021,368
2024-12-27	140,212	247,090	56.75	32.61	4,572,313
2024-12-26	104,080	214,446	48.53	32.96	3,430,477
2024-12-24	82,683	176,200	46.93	32.74	2,707,041
2024-12-23	188,843	391,831	48.2	32.48	6,133,621
2024-12-20	803,485	2,034,556	39.49	32.56	26,161,472
2024-12-19	251,257	435,263	57.73	32.18	8,085,450
2024-12-18	213,571	579,840	36.83	32.87	7,020,079
2024-12-17	174,974	438,745	39.88	34.65	6,062,849
2024-12-16	111,724	451,238	24.76	35.62	3,979,609
2024-12-13	140,276	289,335	48.48	35.3	4,951,743
2024-12-12	100,920	284,387	35.49	35.5	3,582,660
2024-12-11	116,502	309,467	37.65	36.02	4,196,402
2024-12-10	120,207	383,484	31.35	35.9	4,315,431
2024-12-09	92,421	264,088	35	36.02	3,329,004
2024-12-06	82,403	254,907	32.33	35.91	2,959,092
2024-12-05	75,088	236,395	31.76	36.01	2,703,919
2024-12-04	86,057	287,683	29.91	36.22	3,116,985
2024-12-03	64,651	274,731	23.53	35.92	2,322,264
2024-12-02	122,532	542,788	22.57	36.45	4,466,291
2024-11-29	79,196	242,130	32.71	36.64	2,901,741

Total	201,354,660	570,620,302	35.29	30.39	6,118,915,579

* Totals include all data records back to 2020-01-28 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.

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Short squeeze is starting in shares of WAFD at $30.46, after crossing above the $30.392 Trigger Price