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Wed, February 19, 2025

Short squeeze is starting in shares of KALA at $8.11, after crossing above the $7.493 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-02-19 08:30:37 - 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 KALA BIO, Inc. (KALA), 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 KALA BIO, Inc. at $8.11, after crossing above the $7.493 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
2025-02-1848,794154,71631.547.55368,395
2025-02-1427,93573,63337.948.32232,419
2025-02-1345,294104,57043.317.55341,970
2025-02-12247,128608,19440.637.611,880,644
2025-02-1130,689113,55027.0310.56324,076
2025-02-1017,07261,73427.6510.25174,988
2025-02-0729,06791,96831.6110.9316,830
2025-02-0635,88683,16843.1510.36371,779
2025-02-0564,88077,57183.649.61623,497
2025-02-0410,47524,10343.469.4298,675
2025-02-0317,05540,95341.659.2156,906
2025-01-31119,612188,03963.619.161,095,646
2025-01-3026,96968,71839.259.26249,733
2025-01-299,19329,47931.188.7180,071
2025-01-2834,12372,98446.758.38285,951
2025-01-2732,776112,38229.168.13266,469
2025-01-2421,51960,88535.348.13174,949
2025-01-2316,98661,21327.758.04136,567
2025-01-2214,81675,96019.517.67113,639
2025-01-2128,290140,75420.17.29206,234
2025-01-176,11317,50234.937.445,236
2025-01-161,7437,57523.017.0512,288
2025-01-156,07113,75444.146.8741,708
2025-01-144,97019,83625.066.6433,001
2025-01-134,92615,75931.266.6632,807
2025-01-1010,41436,90528.226.8170,919
2025-01-0811,23565,99617.027.1780,555
2025-01-0712,36345,36527.257.5493,217
2025-01-0644,21279,99155.277.69339,990
2025-01-0329,610114,37225.898.08239,249
2025-01-0265,067180,16036.128520,536
2024-12-3110,87524,78943.877.0176,234
2024-12-3011,10534,37432.317.0578,290
2024-12-2712,08426,65045.347.0885,555
2024-12-2618,08549,61836.456.85123,882
2024-12-2422,62038,00659.526.18139,792
2024-12-236,91013,15352.545.9140,838
 
Total550,917,3051,271,099,12043.347.494,128,136,108
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-02-20 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.
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