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Short squeeze is starting in shares of OCFC at $18.59, after crossing above the $18.477 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-01-29 08:30:15 - 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 OceanFirst Financial Corp. (OCFC), 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 OceanFirst Financial Corp. at $18.59, after crossing above the $18.477 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
2025-01-28117,275361,93932.418.572,177,797
2025-01-27122,019331,22536.8418.722,284,196
2025-01-24138,181427,36832.3318.922,614,385
2025-01-23134,986327,38041.2319.112,579,582
2025-01-22124,355289,04943.0218.952,356,527
2025-01-2164,895269,20624.1119.121,240,792
2025-01-1778,817201,86139.0518.751,477,819
2025-01-1663,892168,80637.8518.61,188,391
2025-01-1579,115220,73035.8418.811,488,153
2025-01-14110,294328,54933.5718.442,033,821
2025-01-13151,217411,76636.7217.852,699,223
2025-01-10217,974444,10449.0817.573,829,803
2025-01-08108,334280,82038.5817.961,945,679
2025-01-0794,775262,12636.1617.841,690,786
2025-01-0697,859364,78826.8318.11,771,248
2025-01-0396,756321,54330.0917.91,731,932
2025-01-02109,347290,44937.6517.961,963,872
2024-12-31139,957379,82836.8518.032,523,425
2024-12-3059,208215,75027.4417.791,053,310
2024-12-2755,603178,67531.1217.67982,505
2024-12-2627,027116,42823.2117.96485,405
2024-12-2426,55383,18031.9217.89475,033
2024-12-2354,994203,29327.0517.82979,993
2024-12-20103,461807,23412.8217.791,840,571
2024-12-19121,136332,98536.3817.972,176,814
2024-12-18231,237769,00930.0718.554,289,446
2024-12-1767,764219,33930.8918.921,282,095
2024-12-1632,229226,64014.2219.47627,499
2024-12-1355,085275,92919.9619.441,070,852
2024-12-1242,467153,58727.6519.82841,696
2024-12-11100,751481,88720.9120.032,018,043
2024-12-1059,019213,15127.6920.011,180,970
2024-12-0963,232222,10728.4719.981,263,375
2024-12-0678,681203,53238.6620.261,594,077
2024-12-0566,332186,92435.4920.441,355,826
2024-12-04113,085332,28734.0320.462,313,719
2024-12-0349,186144,51934.0320.32999,460
 
Total115,276,057337,788,75134.1318.472,129,489,188
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-01-30 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.
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