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Short squeeze is starting in shares of AKAM at $100.63, after crossing above the $100.59 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-02-20 10:00:05 - 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 Akamai Technologies, Inc. (AKAM), 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 Akamai Technologies, Inc. at $100.63, after crossing above the $100.59 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
2025-02-191,202,2982,220,51554.1599.33119,424,260
2025-02-18830,2401,694,98748.9899.2582,401,320
2025-02-14640,9151,452,41444.13100.3764,328,639
2025-02-13733,2091,952,12337.5699.6973,093,605
2025-02-12663,3981,335,94949.66100.6566,771,009
2025-02-11967,5311,618,71459.77101.1997,904,462
2025-02-101,644,1433,111,90952.83102.68168,820,603
2025-02-07784,2541,474,94153.1799.3377,899,950
2025-02-06677,4941,444,48346.9100.2467,911,999
2025-02-05583,9981,273,13445.87100.6158,756,039
2025-02-04612,4471,452,73542.1698.9860,620,004
2025-02-03678,4981,778,34538.159866,492,804
2025-01-31627,7211,499,23241.87100.5663,123,624
2025-01-30704,9361,783,58839.52101.3671,452,313
2025-01-29746,5171,365,67354.66100.3274,890,585
2025-01-281,197,8381,864,78564.23100.27120,107,216
2025-01-271,359,7322,455,43455.3899.37135,116,569
2025-01-241,066,3661,789,05659.697.45103,917,367
2025-01-23758,8871,357,58355.995.4872,458,531
2025-01-22725,4911,342,33654.0594.5968,624,194
2025-01-211,149,2602,935,75539.1594.44108,536,114
2025-01-17953,3402,345,98140.6491.4387,163,876
2025-01-16527,5341,142,19746.1990.4747,726,001
2025-01-15532,9771,095,41348.6690.6348,303,706
2025-01-14596,8721,188,80550.2190.6754,118,384
2025-01-13766,1621,519,02950.4489.4968,563,837
2025-01-101,134,7332,423,17346.8389.82101,921,718
2025-01-08724,4241,766,37941.0193.2667,559,782
2025-01-07638,5461,296,64449.2592.8659,295,382
2025-01-06591,4451,519,61338.9293.7255,430,225
2025-01-031,251,7142,318,36953.9993.4116,910,088
2025-01-02455,221989,5184695.7943,605,620
2024-12-31388,680898,03643.2895.7437,212,223
2024-12-30399,7921,087,51236.7695.738,260,094
2024-12-27255,698710,1773696.8824,772,022
2024-12-26475,461929,22451.1797.7546,476,313
2024-12-24252,074541,67346.5496.7724,393,201
 
Total774,572,2311,986,670,05938.99100.5977,911,952,384
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-02-21 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.
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