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Short squeeze is starting in shares of SMTC at $39.612, after crossing above the $38.096 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-02-20 10:30:11 - 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 Semtech Corporation (SMTC), 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 Semtech Corporation at $39.612, after crossing above the $38.096 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
2025-02-19805,2212,496,51132.2537.7430,389,041
2025-02-18852,5642,327,30236.6337.0631,596,022
2025-02-14756,1122,177,35934.733727,976,144
2025-02-13825,1422,387,68534.5636.8330,389,980
2025-02-121,296,1834,085,50531.7336.6347,479,183
2025-02-111,317,2265,812,42922.6637.3349,172,047
2025-02-105,374,00119,223,75027.9637.71202,653,578
2025-02-071,325,2216,715,08719.7353.0670,316,226
2025-02-061,083,0672,701,16640.161.3866,478,652
2025-02-05399,3801,106,22936.166.5526,578,739
2025-02-04630,9851,908,04133.0765.8541,550,362
2025-02-03507,1911,479,13234.2963.8632,389,217
2025-01-31958,6862,339,28840.9867.1464,366,178
2025-01-301,241,9032,455,82350.5766.3982,449,940
2025-01-29651,0051,698,12538.3459.8738,975,669
2025-01-28995,3322,608,86138.1559.3859,102,814
2025-01-271,183,5505,308,21922.356.8967,332,160
2025-01-24426,6621,053,16540.5173.931,530,322
2025-01-23486,4791,308,37337.1875.836,875,108
2025-01-22646,6601,680,49538.4877.4150,057,951
2025-01-21707,6001,632,75643.3476.253,919,120
2025-01-171,140,2252,806,14440.6374.3484,764,327
2025-01-161,741,8053,396,35551.2869.27120,654,832
2025-01-151,624,6424,266,49738.0872.3117,461,617
2025-01-14339,560924,48836.7365.3222,180,059
2025-01-13362,960991,22636.6264.7323,494,401
2025-01-10665,3191,503,05744.2665.8843,831,216
2025-01-08541,4191,285,85842.1166.5936,053,091
2025-01-07397,0351,101,08036.0665.8226,132,844
2025-01-06489,0651,179,99341.4567.332,914,075
2025-01-03687,8101,750,60439.2965.4645,024,043
2025-01-02242,326904,13326.862.1415,058,138
2024-12-31297,726789,68337.761.9118,432,217
2024-12-30360,505864,95041.6862.1622,408,991
2024-12-27396,6981,011,11439.2363.1425,047,512
2024-12-26307,827749,90241.0565.4720,153,434
2024-12-24145,073350,04941.4464.329,331,095
 
Total456,216,8341,320,491,04334.5538.0917,379,456,417
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-02-21 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.
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