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Short squeeze is starting in shares of MKSI at $116.09, after crossing above the $113.422 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-01-31 10:30:08 - 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 MKS Instruments, Inc. (MKSI), 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 MKS Instruments, Inc. at $116.09, after crossing above the $113.422 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
2025-01-30491,1631,125,11543.65112.5855,295,131
2025-01-29332,224854,93738.86108.3135,983,181
2025-01-28242,377848,81428.55107.4326,038,561
2025-01-27526,8881,701,07130.97108.5757,204,230
2025-01-24281,171632,46244.46117.5533,051,651
2025-01-23353,968845,73241.85119.3742,253,160
2025-01-22418,645959,85143.62123.2151,581,250
2025-01-21551,9241,032,23753.47122.3567,527,901
2025-01-17536,2561,142,63546.93119.8864,286,369
2025-01-16313,112626,16350117.9836,940,954
2025-01-15366,909721,02250.89114.3841,967,051
2025-01-14235,003543,90943.21110.7826,033,632
2025-01-13308,012578,27453.26108.7533,496,305
2025-01-10336,736661,39850.91108.9436,684,020
2025-01-08256,180528,36248.49110.8228,389,868
2025-01-07326,396808,56740.37113.336,980,667
2025-01-06509,4101,202,47242.36114.6558,403,857
2025-01-03485,737851,59857.04108.0652,488,740
2025-01-02327,244576,62956.75106.2734,776,220
2024-12-31144,860325,20944.54104.515,137,870
2024-12-30178,085688,04125.88104.0718,533,306
2024-12-27228,120817,96227.89106.0324,187,564
2024-12-26148,390375,31239.54107.1215,895,537
2024-12-24120,765231,55452.15107.2312,949,631
2024-12-23314,405584,60753.78105.9333,304,922
2024-12-20477,1031,454,50032.8103.6549,451,726
2024-12-19287,694752,02438.26102.9729,623,851
2024-12-18318,629974,64032.69106.2733,860,704
2024-12-17184,015533,13834.52109.8220,208,527
2024-12-16361,412922,14939.19111.5440,311,894
2024-12-13217,577530,72641112.7324,527,455
2024-12-12139,296385,46236.14113.0715,750,199
2024-12-11205,500601,32134.17113.5523,334,525
2024-12-10377,2171,053,83635.79111.1241,916,353
2024-12-09285,321735,34538.8114.6132,700,640
2024-12-06241,339508,82047.43114.5427,642,969
2024-12-05318,907950,30533.56113.6236,234,213
 
Total286,213,323724,796,06239.49113.4332,464,372,518
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-02-03 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.
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