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Short squeeze is starting in shares of AMTB at $23.45, after crossing above the $23.144 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-01-30 10:30:05 - 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 Amerant Bancorp Inc. (AMTB), 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 Amerant Bancorp Inc. at $23.45, after crossing above the $23.144 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
2025-01-2957,611153,85437.4523.161,334,271
2025-01-2888,904185,99947.823.212,063,462
2025-01-27202,108418,70548.2723.644,777,833
2025-01-24103,342298,13634.6623.092,386,167
2025-01-23178,758402,16644.4523.554,209,751
2025-01-2292,757225,15741.222.412,078,684
2025-01-21102,063287,25335.5322.712,317,851
2025-01-1767,897125,01554.3122.171,505,276
2025-01-1670,496213,93932.9521.811,537,518
2025-01-1564,000126,38150.6422.011,408,640
2025-01-1471,284163,36343.6421.181,509,795
2025-01-1373,775228,23932.3220.351,501,321
2025-01-10118,051244,05048.3720.132,376,367
2025-01-0868,595223,98130.6321.071,445,297
2025-01-07104,148281,37037.0121.292,217,311
2025-01-0655,295181,89430.421.761,203,219
2025-01-0388,662203,01243.6721.671,921,306
2025-01-0267,273156,25643.0521.81,466,551
2024-12-3180,473206,57438.9622.361,799,376
2024-12-3047,658143,04433.3222.381,066,586
2024-12-2776,992188,41340.8622.311,717,692
2024-12-2652,289131,00339.9122.561,179,640
2024-12-2432,365110,10529.3922.54729,507
2024-12-23135,482335,37840.422.553,055,119
2024-12-20517,8502,071,5152522.3611,579,126
2024-12-19128,686302,01242.6122.632,912,164
2024-12-18128,344352,96636.3623.433,007,100
2024-12-1749,354195,72925.2224.41,204,238
2024-12-1651,543217,38723.7124.791,277,751
2024-12-1349,203186,12126.4424.531,206,950
2024-12-1260,344234,99725.6824.851,499,548
2024-12-1150,322282,02517.8425.221,269,121
2024-12-10110,862428,69525.8625.412,817,003
2024-12-0970,584205,27134.3925.241,781,540
2024-12-06110,953280,42539.5725.522,831,521
2024-12-0598,908280,17735.325.32,502,372
2024-12-04139,230327,56942.525.313,523,911
 
Total46,070,729120,725,80938.1623.151,066,331,258
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-01-31 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.
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