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Short squeeze is starting in shares of OB at $7.03, after crossing above the $6.97 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-02-05 13:30:07 - 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 Outbrain Inc. (OB), 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 Outbrain Inc. at $7.03, after crossing above the $6.97 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
2025-02-04152,007471,14632.266.54994,126
2025-02-0363,729199,66431.925.8369,628
2025-01-3185,623170,09650.346.07519,732
2025-01-3076,452189,99940.246.15470,180
2025-01-2972,986198,09936.846.25456,163
2025-01-2854,445135,64240.146.29342,459
2025-01-2753,085146,28636.296.16327,004
2025-01-2435,95498,15236.636.35228,308
2025-01-2355,570148,21437.496.41356,204
2025-01-2282,846202,70540.876.54541,813
2025-01-2153,914149,54836.056.57354,215
2025-01-1762,278165,63137.66.43400,448
2025-01-1638,927190,96220.386.44250,690
2025-01-1548,281186,33225.916.43310,447
2025-01-1498,152342,60228.656.24612,468
2025-01-13109,290454,37124.056.01656,833
2025-01-1054,533335,73016.246.29343,013
2025-01-0844,699211,02321.186.69299,036
2025-01-07100,043373,51026.786.74674,290
2025-01-0675,724331,55122.847.04533,097
2025-01-0365,054330,77319.677.08460,582
2025-01-0299,320325,24830.546.99694,247
2024-12-3155,740176,14331.647.25404,115
2024-12-30122,197515,28123.717.16874,931
2024-12-2782,633224,15036.877.26599,916
2024-12-2695,749253,12137.837.39707,585
2024-12-2460,999210,20329.027.45454,443
2024-12-23103,888271,13838.327.4768,771
2024-12-20136,144429,53831.77.32996,574
2024-12-19112,176334,36333.557.38827,859
2024-12-18268,597646,61941.547.532,022,535
2024-12-17565,5091,490,40337.947.434,201,732
2024-12-1689,837428,82020.956.88618,079
2024-12-1356,254158,83735.426.51366,214
2024-12-1258,809218,93126.866.69393,432
2024-12-1196,643312,44530.936.85662,005
2024-12-1059,967299,875206.51390,385
 
Total66,953,360182,169,19736.756.97466,618,771
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2021-07-23 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.