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Fri, January 31, 2025

Short squeeze is starting in shares of CMTV at $17.99, after crossing above the $17.641 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-01-31 10:30:04 - 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 Community Bancorp (CMTV), 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 Community Bancorp at $17.99, after crossing above the $17.641 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
2025-01-305,1086,70876.1517.2388,021
2025-01-2926520.3117.134
2025-01-282002,1909.1317.093,417
2025-01-271002,1654.6217.131,713
2025-01-239581411.6716.991,614
2025-01-224,5465,24586.6716.8576,605
2025-01-171,0002,20045.4516.5916,588
2025-01-073001,40521.3516.95,070
2025-01-0620195121.1416.873,391
2025-01-031,8731,97394.9316.6531,191
2024-12-316,1759,71963.5416.68103,024
2024-12-3060071583.9216.6910,012
2024-12-1612350.4316.6517
2024-12-1220030066.6717.133,427
2024-12-10111,102116.75184
2024-12-091,5233,95638.516.7125,442
2024-12-06501,9482.5716.58829
2024-12-051005,9071.6916.611,661
2024-12-044006,8965.816.516,605
2024-11-271002,1214.7116.291,629
2024-11-253,2755,3696116.4853,962
2024-11-212221,37716.1216.423,646
2024-11-192001,31215.2416.553,309
2024-11-13101815.5216.52165
2024-11-112007,5332.6516.423,283
2024-11-0851343.7316.6483
2024-11-0743773759.2916.677,286
2024-11-063281,16828.0816.65,444
2024-11-0485010,2128.3216.3613,909
2024-11-011,5483,80440.6919.3930,022
2024-10-3116121176.316.982,734
2024-10-2920020010016.93,380
2024-10-2215417986.03172,618
2024-10-2120079025.3216.873,373
2024-10-178001,00479.6816.9813,582
2024-10-16121,0121.1916.99204
2024-10-158001,59950.0316.9113,531
 
Total254,591722,75235.2317.634,489,243
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-02-03 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.
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