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Short squeeze is starting in shares of ESCA at $15.97, after crossing above the $15.941 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-02-20 15:00:02 - 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 Escalade, Incorporated (ESCA), 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 Escalade, Incorporated at $15.97, after crossing above the $15.941 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
2025-02-196,45316,06240.1815.51100,086
2025-02-182,97710,73627.7315.3545,697
2025-02-145,51814,37138.415.3884,867
2025-02-134,20914,29629.4415.2164,019
2025-02-129,17522,39940.9615.25139,919
2025-02-115,21015,18734.3115.2979,661
2025-02-101,7758,23221.5614.7626,199
2025-02-074,67611,54340.5114.9169,719
2025-02-062,8358,87731.9415.3243,432
2025-02-055,06711,14845.4515.3377,677
2025-02-043,5297,64746.1514.8752,476
2025-02-035,74620,30728.314.5183,374
2025-01-316,96720,19834.4914.94104,087
2025-01-301,97511,30817.4715.4630,534
2025-01-296,06817,34234.9915.5694,418
2025-01-284,75715,04131.6315.7274,780
2025-01-279,93421,67745.8315.75156,461
2025-01-244,46312,20936.5615.1567,614
2025-01-234,16516,62025.0615.1863,225
2025-01-227,73617,74643.5915.32118,516
2025-01-213,79712,35630.7315.2757,980
2025-01-174,40514,82829.711566,075
2025-01-167,85916,70647.0414.8116,313
2025-01-155,0789,80751.7814.8575,408
2025-01-145,02612,10441.5214.6573,631
2025-01-134,98415,08633.0414.3571,520
2025-01-106,99325,49527.4314.3100,000
2025-01-087,70322,15534.7714.6112,464
2025-01-0716,26047,02434.5814.61237,559
2025-01-0615,22634,16844.5614.65223,061
2025-01-035,90613,36144.214.9588,295
2025-01-0214,83840,85336.3214.62216,932
2024-12-313,89817,21922.6414.4456,287
2024-12-304,43117,33325.5614.2563,142
2024-12-277,70621,39336.0214.45111,352
2024-12-266,68021,58430.9514.7698,597
2024-12-241,56214,28210.9414.622,805
 
Total15,653,57239,239,60639.8915.94249,562,698
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-02-21 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.
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